Buy anything cool lately?

Never saw the dummy transfer diesel, I have the powered PRR one.

It is the Pennsy dummy but what I really want is the Santa Fe.  My plan is to remove the trainphone stuff and paint it in the black tiger stripe Santa Fe scheme.   But who knows, with the speed of my projects I might just come by a Santa Fe powered unit and wind up with an extra Pennsy dummy.

Rolland

More junk!!!! Yippie Well at least there is a set of 17/64th's Auel trucks in there..

Dennis Holler posted:

More junk!!!! Yippie Well at least there is a set of 17/64th's Auel trucks in there..

That's one of your characteristics I've always admired .... courage when purchasing stuff!!!

George

Lionel AF GP7 Great Northern engine with Bluetooth wanted to try the new hand controller.  I really am pleased with what can be done with the hand controller such as bells, horn and speed.  Having the hand controller, company can also run the trains kids can also use it.

I was helping a friend with an estate and he gifted me an envelope of little metal signs.  Turns out it was an almost complete set of Post (?) Cereal promotions for the late 50's.  A trip to the reuse store turned up a $5 frame and the auction site provided the one missing sign.  And not train related - at least until until I populate the layout - here is the display shelf I built for my loose Hot Wheels/Matchbox Porsches.

Christmas in April. UPS dropped these on my doorstep this morning. New additions to my auto racks. Pics.....Paul 2

A parts order from Lionel finally arrived today for an engine I purchased a month ago. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to announce that I am the owner of the best O Scale diesel that ever came out. The Lionel GE Evolution Hybrid, I've been on the hunt for one of these for 10 years now and I finally have one to call my own. I saw this come up on eBay last month as an auction and to my surprise I won it. But it needed a bit of work, which I was 100% willing to do. Two stanchions were broken on either side (replaced with brand new ones), the grill on the rear radiator fell off (so I needed to get a whole new radiator section), and the chain on the rear truck was missing (I fixed that with a 5 dollar chain I found on eBay). Now she's in mint condition!

I am glad to finally own this model, it was well worth waiting 10 years and well worth the work to get it to mint condition! All functions work perfectly by the way.

The Easter Bunny gifted me with the Melrose Park Train Station from Menards. 

Nicely made and a small footprint too. Beats eggs!

I won these off eBay, just got them today. I have two others just like them, they're AMS On30 boxcars. The problem is, the couplers are at On3 height, way higher than On30.
Naturally, they're going to need to be stripped, repainted, then relettered. It's almost a crying shame, because they each have different serial numbers.
But there's no way Rio Grande Rolling Stock is going to stay on this layout!

I also got this in the mail yesterday, my author copy. I had submitted an article about military railroads and Narrow Gauge, specifically slanted for On30. I like how it turned out.

P51....congrats on the article

Congrats Lee! 

Hi Everyone, I am looking for 5) 2036-112 complete collector plates . Anyone where I can get them

Lee, Excellent looking article!!  Congratulations!!!  Oh, the cars look great too!! 

Dennis Holler posted:

More junk!!!! Yippie Well at least there is a set of 17/64th's Auel trucks in there..

C'mon, Dennis!  Wadja pay for 'em?

Just bought this Class J.

Chessie (B&O) Bay Window Caboose by MTH

I just picked these up today. I think I got a good deal on them. Luckily no warpage that I can see.

I got this book off Amazon, two days ago. Ever since I was over in Europe back in 1988, I’ve always had an interest in Dutch railroads. The first book on the subject I've been able to find in English.

Over 30 years later, I now doubt I’ll ever set foot on Dutch soil again, even though I’d love to go back there, especially in the summer time.

At the time, I was quite unfamiliar with the country and its culture, but in a pre-internet era where I didn’t even know which books to order to read more, I went and figured it all out. Heck, I couldn’t even find myself on a map half the time I was there but it was an amazing time.

Anyway, it’ll be neat to read about this.

Pennsylvania Coal Train Set 6-31749Diecast hoppers are heavy. The Railsounds 5.0 are fantastic. It’s the nicest diesel I own. The set was factory sealed and in MINT condition, except where the USPS dropped it on the same corner of the box where the GP30 was and damaged it. I can fix it. Just a broken wind deflector on the cab window and warped railing. I get tired of having to fix everything I buy. There’s not any real nice dealers around me anymore.