Buy anything cool lately?

latest train show purchase........

Maybe?  I hope so...since l am a nut on (several types of rail side structures, but) especially grain elevators, l buy and build O scale kits of them.  One l balked at the price.  It showed up very cheap on the net!  I glommed it, but...is it complete?  Can't tell as it has no instructions, but l suspect not.  This may be the Altoona Nanton Elevator.  Have you built one of these and done with instructions? Or, horrors, l hope this isn't a kit that only has instructions on line??   I missed an elevator in a drive from St. Louis up to Mark Twain's Hannibal, and an HO model was offered, but plans only on net...grrrr...and guy would not sell separately....so had to scratch build one from photos. Hope plans exist on paper for Nanton?

I was at Target picking up some printer ink and found this for $6. It's about 1/45 scale. Being a child of the late 80's-early 90's I had to pick it up for my layout.

Woodson posted:

I did.. I bought a post war N&W Work Caboose (6419-100) / with original box from an OGR Sponsor.. I've been looking for the 'right' one for me for years!! Pictures when it arrives!!

As promised!! Better than described!! Appears to have no run time and looks new.. Box looks good for 60+years old!! Thank you Henning's Trains!!

Earlier today I saw these on eBay, original ET&WNC tickets, and I jumped on them with buy-it-now pricing, got BOTH for about $30!

Last week, I had to stop by Grzyboski’s to pick up my NYC J3a. They had one of their special run Lionel Delaware - Lackawanna C-420’s on display... one seems to have followed me home!!!

It has very nice graphics, runs well, and has excellent sound. Luckily, someone noted on another thread that the manual incorrectly identifies the hatch you need to remove to access the controls, so I was able to find the correct hatch and program the engine and turn off the smoke. Even luckier, programming the new ID worked perfectly.

On Grzyboski’s website, it states “This engine can be seen daily operating around the Steamtown National Historic Park”... of course, when I was there earlier that day, it was nowhere to be found, but, I hope @Tim O'Malley won’t mind if I borrow one of his Midweek Photos from a couple of weeks ago...

I much enjoyed seeing the Lionel model and then the real engine picture (even though borrowed).  Thanks. Nice colors by the way. 

Paul, I always like seeing special runs, and I always liked doing business with Grzyboski’s at the Monroeville Pennsylvania Greenburg shows  

Bought a couple of things the week of Thanksgiving that I'm finally getting around to posting. Thanks to ebay, Nick Smith's and more!

First up(wow poor quality, apologize for that) K-line by Lionel B&O Boxcab that I picked up at Nick Smith's(downstairs) love box cabs, steeple cabs in toy or real life and like pre-war trains so finding an excellently priced modern box cab was nice!

MTH Railking LV Diecast quad hopper- woah is this guy heavy! Tinplate semaphore is from Nick Smith, "guardrail" is a plastruct truss I painted for my expanding road with smaller vehicles.

Another shot of the hopper which looks great with the Williams N5C Caboose(also diecast). Recently purchased a C628 LV Snowbird that was advertised as Proto 2, but, unfortunately it was the locosounds version

EXTREMELY HAPPY to have picked up this Nick Smith exclusive trolley! The Liberty Bell Limited ran between Philly & Allentown(where I live) the trolley says "Allentown Special" on the black plate. Also new- soldering iron,(upgrade) my first fastrack switch, MTH UP switchtower that I bought at a LHS and all the figures are from 4 different ModelPower packs which I purchased for $5 each.

MTH row house and Lionel Work house again with new Model Power figures. I bought 3 of those MTH piers, 16 Fastrack elevated trestle pieces, and a graduated trestle set(bag in back of photo) for a dollar a piece at an LHS.

AHM Borden's reefer. Bought this just for the novelty of having an AHM o-gauge piece. Also, love that it's a Borden's.

Still gotta open these postal workers up. The green truck is a 1:$3 scale road champs from my grandfather. Plasticville police station isn't new- just setting there to set the seen.

Final shot of what will be going on my layout extension in addition to a good deal of other accessories!

I am collecting items for a future "To the Moon, Alice!" train lay-out. And they've come up with a nine-piece set of magnificent Star Wars ships for about $10.50 apiece. Each package also  includes a part for a Death Star that takes all nine ships to complete.

Of course I know it's a rip-off designed to make you buy the entire set! (But I bought all three that Walmart had, and even though I'll never get the full set, the three pieces are very well-made.) I had to steal photos off the web, and I added a photo of the back of the package that shows what the completed Death Star will look like.

We were at the Kennedy Space Center last week (we actually saw a rocket launch to the International Space Station - way cool!) and I bought these items  in a play set that I'm gonna detail and add to Cape Warrenaveral. More pics will follow when I get around to that.

I also picked up some cool 1:48 Star Wars figures in EPCOT, and a robot from South of the Border in SC that I will work on. 

Did you know K-Line released these items:

K691-8015 - NASA Flat Car w/Capsule & Helicopter

K691-8011 - NASA Die Cast Flat Carw/Rocket Booster

K691-8012 - NASA Die Cast Flat Carw/Rocket Booster

I have seen them recently on eBay.

I ended up purchasing all three which can removed and put together to form a ~3 foot tall rocket.

I just got my 1/43rd scale Chevy 1.5 ton truck, out of Estonia. I was very surprised, as I got the model in just 12 days from the order.

Hopefully, with some of that testors Evo stuff, I can remove the few markings on this thing and go to work on it right away. I'm very, very happy with the quality of this model, and though it wasn't cheap I'm very glad I got one!

paulp575 posted:

Did you know K-Line released these items:

K691-8015 - NASA Flat Car w/Capsule & Helicopter

K691-8011 - NASA Die Cast Flat Carw/Rocket Booster

K691-8012 - NASA Die Cast Flat Carw/Rocket Booster

I have seen them recently on eBay.

I ended up purchasing all three which can removed and put together to form a ~3 foot tall rocket.

I gotta check 'em out PaulP575

Picked up a LW transformer, not sure why - looks cool.  It is powering the 646 around the tree.

From Patricks Trains the MTH Premier Moron ( Monon ) boxcar.

Apples55 posted:

Last week, I had to stop by Grzyboski’s to pick up my NYC J3a. They had one of their special run Lionel Delaware - Lackawanna C-420’s on display... one seems to have followed me home!!!

It has very nice graphics, runs well, and has excellent sound. Luckily, someone noted on another thread that the manual incorrectly identifies the hatch you need to remove to access the controls, so I was able to find the correct hatch and program the engine and turn off the smoke. Even luckier, programming the new ID worked perfectly.

 

 

UMMM......PAUL...... PROGRAMMING????????? FROM A TECHNO-PEASANT???????

Is this what happens when the Delaware and Hudson and the Lackawanna have a baby?

RSJB18 posted:

Apples55 posted:

Last week, I had to stop by Grzyboski’s to pick up my NYC J3a. They had one of their special run Lionel Delaware - Lackawanna C-420’s on display... one seems to have followed me home!!!

It has very nice graphics, runs well, and has excellent sound. Luckily, someone noted on another thread that the manual incorrectly identifies the hatch you need to remove to access the controls, so I was able to find the correct hatch and program the engine and turn off the smoke. Even luckier, programming the new ID worked perfectly.

UMMM......PAUL...... PROGRAMMING????????? FROM A TECHNO-PEASANT???????

Is this what happens when the Delaware and Hudson and the Lackawanna have a baby?

Bah-humbug, Bob Cratchit... my techno-peasantry is still in full vim and vigor. Since they did away with the orange modules, all programming involves is picking a unique ID number and then running the engine over my one sensor track - that transfers all the detailed data to the Cab2. Easy-pesy.

May the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come pay you a long and fruitful visit  

Sincerely;

Ebenezer

Okay, so I didn't buy any of this, I have some long time friends that worked for the BNSF P.D. that are now migrating to my industry. This is what they brought me. I'm like a kid at Christmas!!! This is really cool, especially the mugs!

Added some more rolling stock to the fleet.

The Yuengling tanker and the box car came from a forum member. The D&H car from Trainz.