Buy anything cool lately?

great find! I've seen several Marx crossing shanty, but no boxes.

Yup a few hours ago got a cool soda while getting gas, it was great! Also got another s1. Equally as cool!!!

Thanks Jhainer, thanks Mark. I have my eye on a couple of locos That I hope to pick up next week. If I am able to get them they will appear here.

Decided to add to some variety to my trans with these 50' boxcars as these are not "the usual" railroads I always buy.

 

I love all the graphics & detail on this GTW - someday I'll try and read it all!

Does a new refrigerator count?  My new Frigidaire all about cool.  It cost a bit more than a Premier loco, and isn't as nearly as fun to play with.  

 

On the other hand, the refrigerator does a much better job of keeping beer cold than any toy train, so it was a necessary expense, my list of locomotives-yet-to-be-bought locomotives notwithstanding.   

Here is the bridge it came in today

This 24" long twin motored monster just arrived. Should provide enough power to pull my McCoy Circus cars.

 

 

The bridge looks great!

Hi mark check your email!

Alan

Last week I ran across a steel caboose in DM&IR paint while visiting a shop over in Arkansas. This put me on a quest. Over the weekend I located a NIB set of ore cars in the harder-to-find oxide red paint (from an outfitter shop in Ely, MN of all places!) to put in front. Now I just need to wait on the new MTH SD40 tunnel motor to put on point and I will have successfully added another 'home state' road to my layout. Maybe I will top it off with a Yellowstone. That would be cool.

A couple of years ago I picked up a Hallmark/Ajin ATSF Drover Car (which I need to get off my caboose and paint). A couple of weeks ago I picked up the companion Mixed Train Caboose. As the need to drover cars declined due to refrigerated trucks and changes in the meatpacking industry, Santa Fe converted the sleeping portions of the drover cars to a baggage area while retaining the passenger capacity for mixed passenger/freight trains.

 

I need to do a bit of touch up on it, but I got a rare item at a good price so I'm seriously stoked.

 

 

Here's the drover car for comparison

 

 

My local store got a large lot of Weaver stock - they primarily do post war and tinplate and are out of space - they sold me a 57" Santa Fe Mechanical Reefer - with sound - never opened - for $15.  

Congrats on a major steal. I bid on (and lost big time) one (SP) on eBay a couple of months ago and it went well north of $100 and it wasn't in all that great shape.

 

Woa, Steve, nice E2!  Kinda dwarfs everything else, huh? Will pull every circus car McCoy made!

 

david

 

 

Beautiful Bridge.

 

 

 

It has track and a transformer but not quite a train. It is a  19060 American Flyer Stock Car Road Race set manufactured in 1960. It appears to be complete except for a missing manual. Does anyone know where I can get a manual or copy?

 

Thanks

Yesterday and today is the Gadsden Museum Toy Train Meet and Show here in Tucson AZ.

 

I was an early bird yesterday and filled 2 bags. I got all but one item on my list.

 

Notable deals were: 

3472 milk car in very nice condition $10.00,  6560 crane car ,works perfect, $15.00 and 3 Plasticvlle buildings for $1.00 each.  $60.00 Total.

 

The summer show is small cause anybody with any sense has left the area.

 

Azgary

 

Have you considered the MTH 'Coors Beer Train'? Might fit better in your train room than that bulky old Frigidaire...

Yes, but at least in winter you don't have to drive through deep snow and "go trudging across the tundra".

 I still have a blanket on the bed .

 

This week was my biggest in awhile. A WBB 44 tonner.

 

At another shop I got a ETS tinplate vented boxcar. I'm always looking for these eccentric items.