Buy anything cool lately?

@MrMuffin'sTrains trains delivered some new goodies recently.  A newly released Premier MTH NYC E8 (grey engine), and a NYC passenger car. I also purchased a 36' PBR box car.  Always can use a beer train.  Finally, I purchased two Lionel TOFC cars.  Southern Railway and Rio Grande.  Both are VERY VERY nice.

John 

Wow, John!  Mr. Muffin was very good to you!!  

This is my Lionel vision line 3985 Challenger- there are many like it, but this one is mine. Yeah, I remember the JLC Challengers when they came out- I'm kinda glad I waited for this one.

Geno

@Pingman posted:

My air compressor finally gave up the ghost and found this one via Walmart.com for $82.99 plus tax w/ free shipping:

I couldn’t find this particular one on their website, do you happen to have the manufacturer name and/or model number?

 Thanks!

Tom

I got a great deal on a pair of Williams, brass cabooses from a gentleman on the OGR "For Sale or Trade" forum. They just arrived this morning.

@FlyPlanes-PlayTrains posted:

I couldn’t find this particular one on their website, do you happen to have the manufacturer name and/or model number?

 Thanks!

Tom

This is the exact same PointZero compressor package and same price, but on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/PointZe...ps%2C229&sr=8-10

Mine is supposed to reach me on Wednesday.

@Pingman posted:

This is the exact same PointZero compressor package and same price, but on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/PointZe...ps%2C229&sr=8-10

Mine is supposed to reach me on Wednesday.

Thanks Carl...I ordered one as well

Tom

You're welcome, Tom.

Steam on vinyl!!

I finally found this Weaver PRR 40’ Woodside Gondola on EBay for a fair price. This is the nicest Weaver freight car I have.

Well, after waiting for my hobby shop to open up again do to this aggravating coronavirus, I picked up my George Bush Diesel, Lionels Legacy version.  More pictures later. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Hump Day, and Happy Railroading.

@leapinlarry posted:

Well, after waiting for my hobby shop to open up again do to this aggravating coronavirus, I picked up my George Bush Diesel, Lionels Legacy version.  More pictures later. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Hump Day, and Happy Railroading.

Nice! Now, could anyone play a sample of "Hail to the Chief" on this engine?

@Peter Araujo posted:

Nice! Now, could anyone play a sample of "Hail to the Chief" on this engine?

Yes, Larry, we want to hear it.  The engine looks great!!!!

Being a lover of toy sets, I added the Blue Comet set. I must say, this is one of the best starter sets Lionel has produced in a long while. The sounds are great, and the extra passenger car that is an announcement car really makes the set— including the conductor with illuminated lantern. Lots o’ fun in this one! Here I’m operating via the hand control. I set up settings in the app— smoke on, high momentum, then switched to hand controller. 

@leapinlarry posted:

Well, after waiting for my hobby shop to open up again do to this aggravating coronavirus, I picked up my George Bush Diesel, Lionels Legacy version.  More pictures later. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Hump Day, and Happy Railroading.

It looks awesome Larry!  I was able to Pre Order the Lionel Trump SD70ACE last night.  Nice to know exactly what  it will look like and very tempting to try and buy a Bush 4141 non powered to run with it.  Hard part for me will be what the heck will I pull with em as I don't really have a pile of modern rolling stock lol.  I do have some presidential boxcars so that might work although the loco's are scale and the boxcars are traditional sized.

Had a great deal on these. Couldn't resist. Always loved me ABA lash-up.  I have new portholes for the one A unit and B unit.

Oh baby...I've been stalking this one for a long, long time. I guess patience is a virtue. This brand new (NOS) MTH Premier Conrail C40-8 with standard/narrow cab. Threw me a curve at first when I couldn't get it to do anything at all as though it was d.o.a. Turns out this model is equipped for 2 or 3 rail operation and for some reason the 3/2 switch was set to 2-rail from the factory. A flip of the switch and it came to life. I replaced the battery with a BCR-2, greased the gears and added a drop of smoke fluid and we're in business.

@leapinlarry posted:

Well, after waiting for my hobby shop to open up again do to this aggravating coronavirus, I picked up my George Bush Diesel, Lionels Legacy version.  More pictures later. Hope everyone is doing well. Happy Hump Day, and Happy Railroading.

I ordered the UP "Powered by Our People" #1111 SD70AH, but I have been thinking about getting the #4141 SD70ACE non-powered version. Your model is very nice and I hope you enjoy it!

Good dat everyone, finally unpacked my latest new item from Lionel, the Sante Fe full length VistsDome StationSounds 21 in passenger car, and a few more pictures of the George Bush SD70. With my wife on work lay-off, we spent all our time working in the yard, painting the deck, garage doors, and today she’s back at work... Thanks for the nice comments on the diesel. Have a great week, and stay safe, stay healthy, pray continually. Happy Railroading 

Very nice video, Larry!!  I only learned it plays Hail to the Chief last week.  The car looks great!  My wife went back to work also, but it is looking like their business may not survive.  That is because of other factors not due to the coronavirus, though that is helping bring on the inevitable.  So she may just join me in earlier than expected retirement as well.  No arguments there!  We are getting too old for this work stuff!