@leapinlarry posted:Thank you Mark, I’m building a poor mans version of the George Bush train, an UP Lionel 7 car aluminum passenger car set bought over the last 2 years, the funeral car and a couple of others, to be pulled by 4 powered diesels. It’s going to be nice but not exactly like the real one. I need t find the Navy Seal figure. Happy Railroading
Larry, A poor man's set is my kind of set!! 
@PRRronbh and @leapinlarry very nice Bush 41 trains! One of the only presidential trains I like- very unique and fantastic paint scheme, not so much political as it is patriotic, and a perfect blend of unique painted diesel and cars combined with classic UP livery cars. Love the sailor add-on and am happy you mentioned that MTH made that set! Never knew about it!
I haven’t posted in awhile or bought much lately, but what I’ve acquired have been things on my list. Also, Got into a Real K-Line kick ! Pardon the Layout mess- still working on it!
K-line Red Cross Heavyweight 15” Passenger Set. Came in Original set box and never run. Cars work like brand new!
K-line Amtrak F40PH K2403-0353. TMCC, Railsounds, Cruise Control(version 4.0). Phase 3 livery. At first had some trouble with it running as it’d heat up but it seems to have subsided. Looks great with a lot of my Amtrak passenger cars but primarily runs a K-Line 15” Amtrak Horizon consist. Only problem is that it won’t play nice and lash-up with other engines. Regardless, Extremely happy with this one!
Last but not least! some buildings:
Postwar American Flyer “Baggage Smasher” station(sans bagggage smasher figure) works great! Originally thought I might try and sell it but have grown to like it- even my dad mentioned it when he saw it on my layout lol.
Lionel diesel sanding Tower and Rail/Truck Transfer Depot
@rplst8 very cool wood-sided car! Can’t remember which magazine from the last couple years I was recently going through and those caught my eye. As a lover of passenger cars in general im a big fan of the style of those wood-sideds
steve from PA - Some of the best/nicest cars that I have are K-line. Passenger cars & reefers have great detail. Haven't done much or bought anything in last 6 months, but the bug is biting me again.
@decoynh totally agree! I know that the passenger cars are held in high regard on this forum and just from the few of them that I own by K-line I can certainly see why! In December I found a great deal and ordered 8 of their catalogs from 2002-2009(4 are K-line by Lionel). If that was their “golden age”, I found that during that time they had such an awesome variety of unique and quality looking rolling stock. I know there’s the K-line legacy site but the catalogs were a great resource that revealed some extra details, mostly smaller features but also a few major features not on the Legacy site(ex. Cruise control).
On another note, Regarding their engines-I know that the cruise function causes a lot of headaches but the 4.0 works great. The F40PH is my first K-line with TMCC and my first TMCC engine equipped with the higher speed step control feature( my other Lionel engines don’t have odyssey). Even though I’ll probably have Cruise M installed due to the risk of the cruise board going bad, I really, really enjoy how it runs and am impressed with the features of my K-line engine!
@Bill T love the small motorized units- especially the ones that are named for different branches of the Armed Forces! Your #41 happens to be the only one that I have and I really enjoy it as well. Neat runner, fun to watch the sucker move! Nice get and enjoy!
Found this on ebay for $45. Had to grab it to see how it looked with the AFT train. I know they never had semi-trailers on them. I will be removing the trailer and the supports and adding concession stands and looking for the blazer and the forklift. Might have to kitbash the forklift. The brake wheel is wrong as well. I think the real ones were also longer.
Picked these postwar Lionel up at a garage sale, the Wabash's are early Lionel 2333s and run great. Paint job is not perfect but I like it. The 51 has one slight crack in window strut on one side but it there. Runs very noisy and will need a good lubrication when I get a chance.
After cleanup, Follow the Flag!
Rare to find any trains at garage sales but this was a lot of fun.
I went with a Christmas in July sale at @MrMuffin'sTrains. I bought two new Premier MTH SD70s NYC and SP. I also bought a Conrail SD80. Somehow I had three Conrail caboose and no locomotives.
Just awaiting the shipping notifications.
John
Just got this jewel. 1950 773 and 2426W. It's just about perfect. Barely run. I like it a lot. Don't often see in this condition.
Last Christmas my Lionel Polar Railroad GP7 lost it's sounds, and the front headlight went out. It still runs for now, so it is a servicable "mute". With no repair options close by, I pulled the trigger on it's replacement. Hopefully, there will be a meet at York where I can drop the GP7 off with Gunrunner John.
In the meanwhile, I purchased this (MTH 20-5511-1) for a repaint project. This is the future (tongue in cheek) "Bi-Polar Railroad E12". IMHO Lionel missed the boat in not using the "Bi-Polar" moniker on their Legacy Polar Express Bi-Polar.
It will be the same basic paint scheme as seen below with the PE Blue replacing the Orange. IMHO this is going to be a great looking engine for pulling my Polar Railroad scale freight consist.
My apologies in advance to the Milwaukee Road fans for the repaint.
Atlas O 3009920 - 1/48th Scale Quarter-Ton Military Vehicle - JeepJust ordered four from McMuffins.
These came in last Friday, I saw these in the MTH catalog and was not drawn, but with my love of the B&O and MTH on the way out, I figured I could not go wrong. Well as always MTH has blow me away and I now have 7 matching passenger cars on order. Please forgive this E-8 pulling freight. 
My 3rd MPC era set has followed me home. I'm not sure how a tinplate guy becomes a MPC guy but I think the wild colors are doing it.
I was able to trade for this set. All still boxed up and never ran until I brought it home.
On a side note. I really dig those old boxes they used in the 70s and 80s with actual pictures and all the odd fast facts.
RamberDon: I have the same set, although mine has seen some run time, before I bought it. It's a great set, I grew up in the MPC era, and I agree those boxes are cool.
Rusty
@Diverging Clear posted:RamberDon: I have the same set, although mine has seen some run time, before I bought it. It's a great set, I grew up in the MPC era, and I agree those boxes are cool.
Rusty
I'm trying to limit myself on how much I get. But I have a feeling I'm going to be having a half tinplate and half MPC collection at some point.
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