This MTH Rock Island 50' box car. I have no affiliation/connection to Rock Island, I just thought this color and the "Rock" logo are cool looking.

Early morning ebay shopping. A Great price so I hit the BIN button.

Trainz.com New in the box Boston and Maine GP9 horn only.

Arrived in 3 days with FED EX shipping.

Looks great with a matching B&M N5C caboose by Williams and a Williams B&M boxcar.

I guess you really can’t have too many trains - a few freight cars from Nicholas Smith...

And finally... I picked up another Lionel C-420, compliments of Nassau Hobby’s York Sale (this was one of their exclusive runs - have always liked this paint scheme).

The past couple weekends I purchased some freight cars and a bug called standard gauge bit me. There are actually about 7 menards freight cars total, but 4 were already put up in my storage unit when I took this photo

Ordered my log load for my AF Wide Gauge log car.

@franktrain posted:

I picked this up on a trade for some repairs I did. Been at the bottom of a box for a while! Lionel Milwaukee Road postwar 2351 from 1957 one year only. Wires needed replacing, E-unit cleaning and some touch up. Horn works also, has a good crack on one nose just super glued to stabilize it. I wonder where it will end up in the next 63 years?

First run.

Nice save on the #2351, Frank! Looks great, runs great; commendable...

On a recent RV trip to Branson, Missouri had a chance to visit the local Menard’s in Hollister, Missouri about 4 miles from the RV park.  We do not have a Menard’s here in Alabama.  They have a great selection of buildings and freight cars.  I did purchase two lifesaver tankers, also a Lemax Lighted RR crossing signal and a lighted Christmas tree.

From EBAY, I just picked up a bunch of Spur O (O gauge) people made in Germany by a company called MERTEN.

They are really nice and different from the usual offerings. I never heard of MERTEN before - have you?-

I bought two Lionel girder bridges.  I found two "US STEEL" bridges for $5.00 each.   I retired, the first time, from US STEEL in '99.  The placement is not final.

Bill

@Dennis Holler posted:

Just landed Williams Brass K4 number five for $64.....I've managed to pick up several of these over the years for pretty cheap.  Just another project I guess lol. In the past I have picked up other Williams K4's for $68, $75, and $139 and then $200 for the streamlined version.

Wow; you can hardly buy an HO steamer for that kind of dough. How is the quality of this "Williams" stuff?

Mark in Oregon

This week’s purchases: a log load for my original AF wide gauge log car, a Dept 56 RR station for my small Xmas layout, and the two color bulb set for my Halloween RR station. Will share pics when these arrive.  

@Strummer posted:

Wow; you can hardly buy an HO steamer for that kind of dough. How is the quality of this "Williams" stuff?

Mark in Oregon

They run great really, the only downside is the crappy Seuth smoke unit and the QSI reverse.  The QSI is fine too when it works.  So I guess I have 6 Williams brass now and one Weaver T1 in Brass.

I have the Williams Streamlined K4 and I think paid about $200 for it.  It's really nice no issues at all.

The L1 2-8-2 is also in great shape, I found it semi local  about 45 min away and it made a nice present from my mom who still likes to physically purchase presents.  It was $175

Then I have two prewar version Williams K4's which I think were the earliest K4 they made, but run/ran fine.  One of them took a tumble off the layout and mashed the fragile brass pilot so it's been staying in the box for a while.  Paid $139 and $75 for those.

The last two are the later Crown edition Postwar pilot K4's and both of these are really basket cases, paid $60 for one and $64 for this most recent one but it is complete but has clearly been dropped, the cab is broken free and there are a few dents in it. So 4-6 are current runners with two projects. So $713 for SIX Brass Williams steamers is pretty good to me even if a couple are serious projects.  Four of the six are nice layout runners.  Here are a couple of them, can't beat em for the cost.  Always tempted to buy some ERR upgrade stuff for them.  I even managed to pick up 4-5 MTH smoke units so I could add real smoke units to them just have not gotten off my but and upgraded them yet.

Stopped by Legacy Station on Saturday to pick up a pre-order of some MTH 19th century passenger cars (no pics of those just yet) and fell in love with the MTH Restored 4014 Big Boy. The whistle steam smoke effect is what ended up selling me:

While at the store, I had the opportunity to bump into @ericstrains.com who also picked up a 4014. He posted a short video the same day:

@mattrain posted:

Stopped by Legacy Station on Saturday to pick up a pre-order of some MTH 19th century passenger cars (no pics of those just yet) and fell in love with the MTH Restored 4014 Big Boy. The whistle steam smoke effect is what ended up selling me:

While at the store, I had the opportunity to bump into @ericstrains.com who also picked up a 4014. He posted a short video the same day:

Nice seeing you there!

-Eric Siegel

@mattrain posted:

Stopped by Legacy Station on Saturday to pick up a pre-order of some MTH 19th century passenger cars (no pics of those just yet) and fell in love with the MTH Restored 4014 Big Boy. The whistle steam smoke effect is what ended up selling me.

Matt the Big Boy is awesome! Something tells me if I was in the store with you and Eric I probably would have bought a Big Boy also!

Got my two car beer reefer set from the NJHR's today.......pic ......Paul 2

Buy anything cool lately?

Yes, but I'm not one to brag. Don

@scale rail posted:

Buy anything cool lately?

Yes, but I'm not one to brag. Don

Wow!

Legacy or DCS? 😂😂😂😂

Got another Scale Craft Reefer kit.

Gee Don, last time I posted pictures or comments about my autos on this forum, I was tattooed and the posts were removed by Alan promptly. Maybe you will fare better.