Buy anything cool lately?

Finally added a Nickel Plate caboose to go with my 765.

Since they came in with the same shipment, I also added a new flat and Western Auto PUP trailers. The Nickel Plate PUPs are older but I wanted to included them for my own comparison.

Received my second GGD PRR Baggage Mail car today. It will be in the local commutter train with my current K-line passenger cars until I get enough itch to splurge on GGD P70 coaches. But those are 20 inches not 18 and I'm on the fence about how they will look and track on my layout. Here are the two GGD cars in the same train, new car on the right.

Just got real nice #2026(early one) Great shape smooth runners. That makes nine post war steamers. Love them.

I thought I posted my new SF steamer in an earlier posting but I cannot find it.  I apologize if this is a duplicate.  Nice running engine but I think Lionel could have toned down the colors

Picked up these two New York Central passenger cars. With Penn Central being part of my model RR universe, I wanted a small infusion of NYC stock. I will eventually re-do these as Penn Central units. Historically, with ridership down and many PC passenger trains only running because of mandates, some PC trains only consisted of a single locomotive and a single coach. This train with two coaches and 4 baggage cars would have been a good sized passenger consist at one time.

Frank, I don’t know if it’s prototypical or not but I think it’s beautifully done. Very nice. 

@romiller49 posted:

Frank, I don’t know if it’s prototypical or not but I think it’s beautifully done. Very nice. 

Thank you, it is a beautifully done engine, and it's not prototypical.  The prototypical engine had streamline shrouding.  The reason I said the colors were too bright, it did not match my un-prototypical MTH passenger cars...  Next time I'll run this engine I'll use Lionel's SS 21" passenger cars.

Yesterday my Atlas scale CZ dome car "Silver Lariat" came. It's something special for my wife and I. She bought us a trip on the real car from the Bay Area to Reno and road it back two days later. Good food, good wine. It was wonderful going through the mountains sitting in the dome. Been looking for that car for a long time. Don

PS. I've posted this many times but it was shot on the "Silver Lariat" on an Amtrak run when we were going back to the Bay Area. We had four CZ cars at the tail of the train. 

Lionel Amtrak starter sef from the mid 90s.

C&O AA F3 set from 2000. Command Equipped, Railsounds, Pullmor motor.

Lionel RR Club GP38 1992

From Pats Trains, the MTH Imperial line Trump ES44AC with caboose. It will be making whistle stops on the S&Y RR.

Picked up at Menards the Lifesavers tank car. I like the flammable placards.

Picked up a couple of bridges at the club last night...

Frank I've always liked that ATSF livery even though it was a one off.  I believe it was a streamlined Hudson, not a  4-8-4.  I've got the Williams which is actually a N&W J but it was the colors that got me.

Picked up a 2026 a couple weeks back, need to clean the shell but it's in really nice shape!

From a recent auction, an “upscale” Western Maryland inspection car.

Does anyone have any idea on what car this was?

Jerry

Wow, Jerry!  I have a lot of information on the Western Maryland, but can't recall ever seen a photograph of that inspection car!  That is a great purchase!

Went to an estate sale yesterday...not much there but did pick up this Lionel circus car (circa 1956-57 if my research is correct).  Needs a little TLC but in pretty good shape.  Estate sale was the home of a former professor of mine who died a couple months ago so kinda cool to have a piece of him now part of our layout.

Purchase a 2560 Lionel Crane from a forum member and a Lionel Prewar #831 from eBay.

Both are in fair condition and are the same length.

Since I like prewar I m thinking of taking the crane off the postwar flat and drilling out a hole in the prewar 831 flat car then to mount the crane on that flat.

I will repaint the 831 flat car and will keep the crane paint as is.

Once done I will pst pictures in the Prewar Section.

Also for the purist, the crane will not be modified at all and I will keep the Postwar 2560 flat in case I ever want to reassemble the original 2560 Crane car.

Also the prewar flat hole that was drilled could always be covered with the wood lad.

I just bought this RMT Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore lines Cabin Car (caboose on any Railroad other than the PRR).

Just traded my stored N Scale stuff for an 1952only Lionel five car freight set. Headed by #726rr Berk. No boxer but in great shape. I need to slow up my shelves are full😀