Buy anything cool lately?

Matt,

   I just made a deal on a Tin Plate Hellgate Bridge which I am very excited about receiving,  I hope UPS handles it gently  & maybe another Z4K, post some pictures when I return home.

PCRR/Dave

Love my Hellgate Bridge

My wife gave me a Lionel Legacy Command Control system for my 70th birthday yesterday.

Nice pooch !!

Thanks Jim, I sneak her in form time to time

Matt Makens posted:

Thanks Jim, I sneak her in form time to time

Well, why not? After all, she is trained....

An of course we all like trains

Mr Union Pacific posted:

Mark the f3 set looks fantastic.  I have the same set I inherited it from my grandfather.  It runs great and strong.  As you will no doubt agree, they don't make them like that anymore.

Thanks, Mr UP!

And thanks to all who 'Liked' my posts!

I found this on my door step yesterday, Always wanted a big Hudson. Picked the N&W up a month or so ago, It was a shelf Queen, though I found out why, after working over the e-unit and some motor work it runs great. Well I guess Ill just keep adding to my collection. I really like MPC engines , I now have quite a few and they work well for me.  Have a nice day.

Good to see another setter on the forum Matt !

WOW Mike, your Irish is beautiful. Those Setters really are a special breed. Is that a modular layout setup on your patio?

  Yes Matt, that is our modular layout set up on my back patio last October. We just completed another 8 ft expansion. If you would like to see it with scenery on it at the Boulder Model Railroad Clubs show last month,just do a search for High Plains 3 Railers on this forum.

Today FedEx dropped off my first bobber caboose. One of three I found for my roads I run. Here is a pic of my new addition................Paul

I collect US WW2 stuff, and my layout takes place in 1943. So, I thought it'd be neat to get some passes from that year from some of my favorite railroads. Scored these off ePay for less than $6 for both of them...

Just picked up An MTH GE "Evolution" ES44 diesel with the charging lights. Also found the caboose and blinking boxcar with same scheme. Today ordered non-blinking boxcar and laboratory car. MTH also putting out flatcar with bulkheads this month. All same scheme. MTH doesn't need my help to sell these but WOW! are they awesome. I have been debating back and forth as to get or not, because they don't fit the theme of my railroad which is steam and early diesel; Pennsylvania RR and Chesapeake and Ohio. The opportunity came up and I caved in.

I just picked up this MTH Great Northern S2 4-8-4. The sounds aren't on par with Lionel, but the attention to detail is very impressive.

bn614 posted:

Just picked up An MTH GE "Evolution" ES44 diesel with the charging lights. Also found the caboose and blinking boxcar with same scheme. Today ordered non-blinking boxcar and laboratory car. MTH also putting out flatcar with bulkheads this month. All same scheme. MTH doesn't need my help to sell these but WOW! are they awesome. I have been debating back and forth as to get or not, because they don't fit the theme of my railroad which is steam and early diesel; Pennsylvania RR and Chesapeake and Ohio. The opportunity came up and I caved in.

Nice grab Bob. Do you have a picture of the "blinking boxcar"? I wonder if the chasing lights could be put on the bulkhead flats as well - that would make for a nice show behind that engine.

The kids ( who am I kidding ) would love em.

Paul

From the Muffins...............Finally a black realistic MTH tank car! My1st 8k.

NEW - Sony DSC TX30  http://www.sony.com/electronic...act-cameras/dsc-tx30

This morning I went to the TCA show in Parma Ohio. I was able to get six more tractors to make up some flat car loads. I almost picked up a Lionel Heinz vat car for my Menards Sauerkraut Factory but decided instead to possibly make up a couple out of Weaver flat cars I have. A pic of my buy today..............Paul 

I picked up these two Williams Amtrak items today. I think both come from the late pre-Bachmann Williams era. The E-60 is interesting because unlike most of the older versions it has both the 3 axel trucks and it has a different number than the long running  number 960. This one is numbered 964. I already have a modified and partly repainted #960 so I was happy to pick this one up as a new project. It will get a partial repaint to a black top like my 960 and some window screen rock guards.

I also got a Williams Metroliner. I've wanted one for awhile. Of course now that I have this one it pretty much guarantees that Lionel will make thier slightly smaller than  scale cab control car from the HHP-8 set into a Metroliner because that is my luck.

Here are is my old 960 with it's Lionel F3 trucks on my old, now defunct shelf layout. A flavor of the future of the 964.

Love these Electrics. Wish they were made today in scale.

Got a few more vintage scale kit built cars.  The caboose is prewar Walthers/Crestline and the other two are Westbrook kit cars.  Got all three for less than $20 .

those look great Dennis.

Love these Electrics. Wish they were made today in scale.

Nice find on those railroad passes, and slightly cheaper than the silver filigree ones Otto Mears used to hand out for his SW Colorado narrow gauge lines.  Today, in a train show, I found a book on Canadian grain elevators, published in 1998, and lamenting their passing and demolition.  Years ago I attended the Calgary Stampede rodeo, and drove out into the prairie to photograph a few of these...that was about 1980.  As a big fan of grain elevators and mining ghost towns, I was a little startled to learn that these were then being torn down at a rapid pace, and that their towns, with the track pulled up, and the elevators gone, were turning into ghost towns on the prairie.  Made me wish I had gone back or at least phtographed more of them.  The book is "Wheat Kings", by Greg McDonnell.  An interesting thing about Canadian prairie elevators, is that there were often rows of wooden ones beside the track, often painted  barn red.  While in Kansas, etc., you might find two or three in a town, but not lined up like tin soldiers.

I enjoy the fantasy gas globes...this one has just about everything a guy could love... Wish I could have showed a photo of them in a globe lit up but too cold around here to paint at the moment!

Bobber number two came in today. A C&O Bobber. Pic of the buy. The third one, a CN Bobber, should come in this week........Paul

My last forum "buy" was a box of 3 complete lionel 50s engines. they were dry and dirty but not greasy and abused. Was running the biggest one last night and admiring it-a 2065. It is one of the smoothest, strong pulling, good smoking engine in my fleet. Love it and that is what makes these old Lionels fun.

good thing you hang onto that 2065 Jim....

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A new ride to haul layouts and trains to meets. This should replace 2 vehicles.

Good looking ride.  You're looking well, too.

Happy new year.

Completed my set of New York Central Hudsons,  with the Commodore Vanderbilt.

Lionel 2046 comes in for a none streamlined J class,  and then Railking  Commodore Vanderbilt,

then a 1938 Dreyfuss,  and a 1941 Empire State Express.

Forty Rod posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A new ride to haul layouts and trains to meets. This should replace 2 vehicles.

Good looking ride.  You're looking well, too.

 

Happy new year.

Thanks Tom. Send me a couple of those engines you want reworked anytime. I have the parts waiting.

Steve

Although not a train it is something I needed. Last night while working on scenery I ran out of white glue. So this morning it was to the Depot. Came back with enough to last me a bit...........Paul

Well yes, I purchased two 072 Fastrack switches, and an 072 Fastrack wye.  I am installing a siding(s) to park locomotives on the outside loop of my layout.  I am tired of having to pick up a locomotive and remove it from the layout so I can run a different locomotive.  Pics will follow when I finish.  I also purchased some 2 x 2 x 3/16 square tubing and some 2" pipe.  I am fabricating my own "Top side Creeper."  Ill have pics of it was well. 

went to TCA event in Utica Station, Utica new York on sunday. purchased a pre war Lionel 262 locomotive.

a prewar Lionel 267 caboose and online from a forum member,(thanks Ryan), a prewar

Lionel 655 box car. Will make great additions to the tinplate set Im putting together.

way to much stuff !! I need to bring everything in the back door so the wife doesn't see it LOL no she knows she can hear the credit card crying. LOL
started off with 2 more k-line Santa Fe aluminum hoppers, then found a MTH chessie steam special ps 2.0 , then ordered a bunch of stuff from lionel to fix upgrade some engines , then bought a err cruise commander and cruise commander lite and 2 sound commanders, then 2 036 remote switches then 2 072 remote switches then  5 more signals from china and there control boards then saw 2 cantilever signals from them too so got that I think I am done for awhile since that doesn't include the 6 korber building I bought too. or the pink foam for scenery. so I should have enough to keep me busy for the rest of the year LOL this doesn't include the shingles I bought to finish off the station too. or led lights LOL man the credit card is crying  you don't realize it until you write it down.

Logic Delay Switches Circuit Board,Signal Controller,Lights on automatically x 5
2 x O scale 1:48 Cantilever Signal Bridge prewired LEDs 3 aspects single Track

5 pcs O Scale 3 aspects Railway LEDs made Signals Green/Yellow/Red

Lionel 6-12048 FasTrack 072 Left Hand Remote Switch

Just received the scale smokejack from Lionel for the PRR N5b cabin car purchased awhile back.

Also while at Post Office picked up non-train relate Beautifully machined Spin-On oil filter adapter for my old 392++++++++++++ ci Hemi .

Ron

392....and just what might that be in? hope an old mopar! (pics?) 383 in my road runner.

Steamer posted:

392....and just what might that be in? hope an old mopar! (pics?) 383 in my road runner.

Yes the 392 ci (originally) is out of my first auto.  A 1958 Chrysler New Yorker convertible.  Once on the Ohio Turnpike driving to Cleveland for a science fair race a new 409 Chevy.  My speedometer hashed up to 130 mph, with the peg about another 10 mph.  My speedometer was pegged and the 409 was not pulling away.

Ron