Buy anything cool lately?

                         I see...

                   we both got tanked this weekend...             nice car Bob !!

Another UP Heritage Locomotive. MTH did a really good job. Unfortunately, I couldn't pull a train with it as i'm out of Kadees.

AGHRMatt posted:

Another UP Heritage Locomotive. MTH did a really good job. Unfortunately, I couldn't pull a train with it as i'm out of Kadees.

Do you like garish? Holy cow.

Not at all like the refined, elegant paint schemes of PRR...

RSJB18 posted:

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.

Those are some excellent cars, Bob!

I picked up my new NYC Hudson a couple of days ago - WOW!!! As has been noted on another thread, this is a beautiful engine. I choose the 5418 with the standard tender which I find reminiscent of the conventional 783 and 785 in my collection. The applied detail is impressive, the engine runs nicely, and the sounds are excellent. If I have any complaint, it is that the various switches are back under the cab... while this isn’t a major issue, it does somewhat complicate the programming since you need to take the engine off the track after you do the programming to switch the engine to Run. I prefer when the switches are under a hatch on the top of the engine.

That's a beauty Paul. The Hudson is my favorite steamer. I have a nice HO Rivarossi that I've had since I was  kid. It's a little worse for wear and on its second motor but.....

Mark- Thanks- starting to build a beer train.

A Menards early single dome black tanker, need more with oil company logos.

Hey Bob, your Hudson was the subject of a Gil Reid painting years ago, titled "79 MPH", NYC Hudson 5405

http://gilreid.com/product/79-mph/

Rusty

I finally got my Bachmann trench locomotive, it just showed up today. It has the best sound system I've ever heard out of a ready to run locomotive.

https://youtu.be/oPs1xkBu0zo

It's definitely going to need to be broken in, though.

I bought another project from my secret source. MTH Premier Santa Fe 3460 class Hudson 3464. It's never been run but is missing all the electronics and smoke unit. It just has the 9434 Pittman motor and drivetrain in the shell. It's a combination of 3464's shell and front truck with 3463's drive wheels and rear truck, which don't have white wall tires. No matter as I'll be removing the white walls from the front truck. This is going to be a Frankenstein project with the tender shell being from a Lionel 3751 class Northern (the final rebuild 3751 class Northerns used the same 20k gallon water capacity tender as the 3460 class Hudsons) and the chassis, trucks, and toolboxes coming from a MTH Premier Blue Goose Hudson (the Blue Goose was a streamlined 3460 class Hudson). Everything will be PS3 controlled when it's done. I'll be taking pictures as I go through the project and I'll start a post with all the pictures when it's done. Should be a fun project after the holidays. This is my 3rd Premier Santa Fe 3460 class Hudson. I already have 3463 and 3460 (The Blue Goose). Needless to say I like this model.

p51 posted:

I finally got my Bachmann trench locomotive, it just showed up today. It has the best sound system I've ever heard out of a ready to run locomotive.

https://youtu.be/oPs1xkBu0zo

It's definitely going to need to be broken in, though.

Very nice Lee. Looks and sounds great! It needs a engineer and fireman. I assume your expert weathering is on the to do list too?

Bob

Lee, I am with Bob!  That is a great looking and sounding engine!  I’m sure you will get it detailed just right!

RSJB18 posted:

p51 posted:

Very nice Lee. Looks and sounds great! It needs a engineer and fireman. I assume your expert weathering is on the to do list too?

I don't know if I'd call what I do to poor unfortunate rolling stock as 'expert,' but thanks for the kind words.

Yeah, once I break this in, I'll be putting WW2-era Army markings along the side tanks ("USA" only, not "USAQMC" as was common for US Army Quarter Master Corps as I'd be explaining that every time anyone looked at it) and then a road number under cab side windows. I've settled on 5069, as that was a road number for one of the original Baldwin class 10s, and I recently turned 50, born in 1969 (and this was intended as a birthday present to myself, belated by two weeks due to Bachmann).

Then, yeah, some light weathering. they didn't go nuts with letting these things go even back then, so it'll get weathered about as lightly as my Whitcomb diesel.

At Fort Benning, they ran a small fleet of Davenports, copies of the Baldwin Class 10s. I'm using this and photos of them as a guide as to how to make them look. Note how they're clearly not OD green, even from the b/w film, unlike how the one on display at the Infantry/Armor museum there is now painted:

https://youtu.be/-BTtncKnS9k

I want to get a solider into the cab wearing herringbone twill fatigues or a coverall and what they called a "Daisy Mae hat," which sort of looks like a sailor's hat in dark color with the bill turned downward. Maybe he'd have a fireman with a steel pot on or not. But I need to find some 1/43 scale GI's to put inside this to show how small they really were! I'll also replace the plastic molded 'coal' bunker with real crushed coal and spill lots of it onto the cab deck.

One of the few Diesel locomotives I've always really liked is the GG-1. For years there was one parked on the tracks just to the east of Lancaster, Penna. I'd pass it whenever I took the train out to Lancaster to go to my printer, Science Press, located in Ephrata PA. 

There are lots of versions of this available, in all price ranges. I display them only, don't run them, so all the bells-and-whistles—literally!—don't interest me. 

Andrew,

Nice pics, and I like GG1's too (the traditional Lionel/Kline selectively compressed ones, the scale models just look wrong to my nostalgic eye), but they are electrics, not diesels

Lionelski posted:

Andrew,

Nice pics, and I like GG1's too (the traditional Lionel/Kline selectively compressed ones, the scale models just look wrong to my nostalgic eye), but they are electrics, not diesels

Yes, as a friend pointed out to me, electric. What was I thinking?

BTW, has anyone here ever bought anything from a place in Melbourne, Florida, "All About Toy Trains"?

Well, I didn't actually buy it. The guy threw it in with what I did buy!   LOL

Thinking I might electrify it with a smoke unit too and make it a smokin' rat rod loco.  LOL

          Andy,  like it ...  " smokin' rat rod loco "         gotta see it !

Lionelski posted:

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. 

The items from the children's play set purchased at Kennedy Space center have been detailed. The Lunar Rover is on the trailer that came with the pickup set I bought at Tractor supply last month. The Star War Storm Troopers purchased at Epcot are being thwarted by the good guys from the U.S. Army.

All this is now happening at Cape Warrenaveral. 

Wow guys, I see some great finds, congratulations and Merry Christmas. Some of my BTO items finally arrived at my hobby shop. Also, I finally visited Menards and found a cool sign, one that was advertised in OGR The Magazine.