Buy anything cool lately?

Nice video Larry. Sounds great!

Larry, Great looking passenger cars! Also thank for the wonderful video!

Finally acquired a William's NORFOLK & WESTERN class A at a reasonable price.

I now have five Wm's brass articulating engines, "U.P. Big Boy",  "U.P. Challenger",  "S.P. Cab forward ", "NYC class A".

A Lionel Legacy Tacoma Rail SD-70 from Pats Trains.

Bought this "new" Lionel TMCC Pennsylvania RS-11 for a pretty good price

I finally got the RPO car for my Reading passenger train, this pretty much finishes my collection for my MTH Reading Madison passenger cars. I thought about getting the other 2 pack of cars, the baggage and coach car, but I decided there isn't really a point in getting cars that I already have. Especially since I would most likely only use the coach car from that 2 pack.

Hi guys! My name is John, and I am new around these parts. Just getting back into the hobby after a 45 year absence. My three year old son loves this stuff as I did when I was a boy. His first engine is a 1956(?) Lionel GP-7 Milwaukee Road #2338 that my grandfather gave my dad when he was just a boy. My dad passed it along to me and now the 4th generation is getting to experience this very same locomotive. 

My most recent aquisition for the collection is the Lionel JLC Legacy Big Boy #4012, which was acquired new in the box just last week. I still don't have the minimum curve set needed to run it, but they are on the way. I am looking to build an outdoor run for the trains as our home is not suited to allow for a large O-scale layout, unless I scrap my two channel music room, which is NOT about to happen.

Thanks for the great forum, and I look forward to learning more.

@John4884 posted:

Hi guys! My name is John, and I am new around these parts. Just getting back into the hobby after a 45 year absence. My three year old son loves this stuff as I did when I was a boy. His first engine is a 1956(?) Lionel GP-7 Milwaukee Road #2338 that my grandfather gave my dad when he was just a boy. My dad passed it along to me and now the 4th generation is getting to experience this very same locomotive. 

My most recent aquisition for the collection is the Lionel JLC Legacy Big Boy #4012, which was acquired new in the box just last week. I still don't have the minimum curve set needed to run it, but they are on the way. I am looking to build an outdoor run for the trains as our home is not suited to allow for a large O-scale layout, unless I scrap my two channel music room, which is NOT about to happen.

Thanks for the great forum, and I look forward to learning more.

 

Welcome to the forum John.  Sounds like a good start.  We will be here to help you WHEN you start planning the demo of the 2 channel music room😂. Always have fun and enjoy the locomotive you recently acquired.

@A.J. posted:

Bought this "new" Lionel TMCC Pennsylvania RS-11 for a pretty good price

AJ,

    I have two Legacy PRR RS-11s, great runners. I run them in a 4 unit lash up with a Legacy GP9 and a TMCC RS-11 dummy (all PRR). All 4 together are pretty impressive. Good Luck with your engine.

JohnB

leapinlarry, I see a Play button but it doesn't seem to be active.  So, can't hear those potentially annoying sounds :-).  Looks like a fun building for your layout, regardless.

TRRR

I purchased this maintenance of way building MOW, by Lionel a few months ago, just wondering if you all had heard the sounds? There’s lots of great purchases pictured here. Everyone have a great Thursday, and Happy Railroading...Stay safe, stay healthy, pray continually.

Cool yes...Had a split system head installed in train room for heat and AC, goodbye ugly old window unit. Great buy $390 for the head only as I already have the system in the house and was able to attached this one to it. installed it a little lower than the top of the layout in the elevated area so won't be a distraction. Going to be constant temperature year round and very little humidity. That's my "Buy Anything Cool Lately"

Got in a Nanton elevator by Altoona Model Works.  This is not a cheap kit, but l got it for a VERY good price, maybe because instructions are only on the net??  Thanks to posters here, a friend printed me instructions.  This is the last kit elevator l am aware of and did not have built. , and l have several scratch built ones, so real estate is at a premium and l need a fleet of boxcars with grain doors.  (I do like grain elevators) l  also got in another l, l think uncommon kit, a Suncoast coal tipple.  It, too, was a good price, and l think there are only two other coal tipple kits, the one out of W. Va., and MAYBE the one south of York, although some of those kits are S scale only?  SOME of the coal structures are in O. There is also a small tipple kit modeled on a mine in Illinois. My railroad is imagined as owned by a coal mining co. that went after logging, metal mining, and grain business also, as  they were happy to cash anybody's check, and are located along the Front Range with coal mines west of Pueblo, metal mines and trees in  the Rockiesd and a prairie of grain east to Kansas.  Since l am stalled by a shortage of windows and  doors on my caboose project, l don't know when l will get to building these two kits.

TRRR, your correct, it’s a new game for me in placing a video on the forum, however, go to my picture, 2nd one with the blue arrows, push the button on the left and see if that works. Thank You for letting me know. 

@John4884 posted:

Hi guys! My name is John, and I am new around these parts. Just getting back into the hobby after a 45 year absence. My three year old son loves this stuff as I did when I was a boy. His first engine is a 1956(?) Lionel GP-7 Milwaukee Road #2338 that my grandfather gave my dad when he was just a boy. My dad passed it along to me and now the 4th generation is getting to experience this very same locomotive. 

My most recent acquisition for the collection is the Lionel JLC Legacy Big Boy #4012, which was acquired new in the box just last week. I still don't have the minimum curve set needed to run it, but they are on the way. I am looking to build an outdoor run for the trains as our home is not suited to allow for a large O-scale layout, unless I scrap my two channel music room, which is NOT about to happen.

Thanks for the great forum, and I look forward to learning more.

 

John, Welcome to the OGR Forum and back to the hobby.  I'm glad you are sharing the hobby with you son.  The Big Boy looks great!  Ask away on any topic or post any new topic of your own.

Sunday I received an email from Forum sponsor Mr. Muffin's Trains with one of his 'make offer' offers.  For the first time, I saw something I wanted.  I made what I thought was a ridiculously low offer, and shortly received a counter offer for only $100 more.  Well, it arrived yesterday.  It is a Legacy Western Maryland 2-6-6-2.  I know purists would say the Western Maryland Railway never had any of these.  I don't care.  I like it.  It runs good.

Beautiful engine ......enjoy  !!!!!!

@Old Lionel posted:

Beautiful engine ......enjoy  !!!!!!

Thank you!

@Mark Boyce posted:

Sunday I received an email from Forum sponsor Mr. Muffin's Trains with one of his 'make offer' offers.  For the first time, I saw something I wanted.  I made what I thought was a ridiculously low offer, and shortly received a counter offer for only $100 more.  Well, it arrived yesterday.  It is a Legacy Western Maryland 2-6-6-2.  I know purists would say the Western Maryland Railway never had any of these.  I don't care.  I like it.  It runs good.

 

Congratulations Mark, lovely engine and sounds like a terrific deal

Got these today from eBay. Those ashtrays were used in the 40s, though I'm not sure if spitoons were used that late. I'll probably use them on the layout anyway...