Buy anything cool lately?

Mark Boyce posted:

suzukovich posted:

Here is my contribution, Ok cool for me.

Pick up two K Line ATSF Waycars( one wood and one steel) today at the train show in Bradenton Fl along with some books on Florida history for my daughter. 

These came a couple of days ago

Atlas/Roco PS1 NYC Systems

Atlas GN steel Reefer

Added to my German Truck collection.

1956 Henschel 3-180 TAS  and Old Timer truck Magazine from Germany

 

 

Everything is cool on your layout! ;-)

Thanks Mark. I guess you right with all that snow.  Of course by next month the wood ATSF waycar will be reconfigured and reflagged as an CB&Q waycar. I guess the ATSF purests out there will be screaming now. 

At the Allentown show yesterday, I purchased the mth Conrail Bicentennial GP38. The decoration was spot on!

This classic beauty came in the mail today! One step closer to getting an entire USMC collection 

Love it !!!!

Semper Fi.

Larry

RAHHH and Semper Fi Larry

Henschel made some odd-ball asymnetrical warplanes during WWII.  I just glommed a 2 door '39 Buick Brooklin coach for my roads.  Two door coaches were everywhere, and the last one I drove was a Nissan Sentra rental some years ago, and well after their peak period.

Too much !  A couple of things off the Forum and 3 uneeded engines   at the show last weekend plus a nice 2 dome Sunoco tanker today. Time out !!

I know it's not a big or cool but I bought a loop of 0-54 realtrax to prepair for a 6x12 layout that I'm buying off craigslist. It's just a bench work and table. I know it's not this massive layout but it will be rebuilt to move to Florida in a year.

mike Arnold 

I bought this decorative piece at a yard sale today. It’s made of plaster, very heavy, and very detailed. I think it will make a great tunnel portal after I level off the bottom.

Hi all,a week or so ago this long awaited puppy arrived,my other love is 1/50 diecast construction,earthmoving,mining and crane models,so being a bit of a Cat fan I trawled online shop after online shop until I found one,

May not be a big deal, but neat for me. I just picked up a 1948 misprint PRR gondola.

Lione89: That definitely will make a nice looking tunnel portal. Anyway some more stuff arrived the other day. OK cool for me.

Atlas GN Steel reefer and a NP Waycar.

From  the rebuild shop Atlas ATSF Reefer. The Bolsters had zinc rote and  when I bought it awhile back. Finally got around to repairing it with new bolsters 

Two more truck for my collection

Scania LB 140 Super Road with Curtain side trailer and a Scania L110S FINA Tanker

My want list has become a list of hard to find items I want. So I figured after getting the email Aarons is now offering 40% off I took a ride there today. I had not been in there for quite some time and there is not much left considering what was in there to begin with. But I was able to get two Rail King water columns and for almost the price of one. In fact I got the last two. A pic of my buy...................Paul

GBARNEWALL, Ive got 2 of them at my store

Picked up a brass Weaver John Wilkes. Wonderful engine.

I just bought 3 of these. More to follow...(9)

I found out 2 things as these are my first 89' 4" intermodal flat cars from Atlas. 1.) You cannot use the bridge plates with 2 45' trailers. There isn't enough clearance for the trailers since the plates are not hinged. And, 2.) The caboose derails going into an O-72 curve. I haven't tried it yet but I might be able to correct this if I put another car, like a Front Runner, ahead of the caboose. I'm just not sure if the Front Runner will derail. It's not a big deal either way as a unit train of flat cars probably looks better without a caboose.

EVANS DESIGNS  LEDs for conversion I did of 3 Road Champ Cop cars to flashing Cop cars also an LED unit for the JOKER Van, adding this to the BATMAN scene I am making.

suzukovich posted:

Lione89: That definitely will make a nice looking tunnel portal. Anyway some more stuff arrived the other day. OK cool for me.

Atlas GN Steel reefer and a NP Waycar.

From  the rebuild shop Atlas ATSF Reefer. The Bolsters had zinc rote and  when I bought it awhile back. Finally got around to repairing it with new bolsters 

Two more truck for my collection

Scania LB 140 Super Road with Curtain side trailer and a Scania L110S FINA Tanker

 

Very nice Scanias there,do you have any more road haulage trucks?

 #1 son >Howdy! I say Howdy, from down here in Chickenstick Arkansas ! How about this I know its not trains; but I just wanted to share it any way. Instead of laying train tracks; we go lay some rubber tracks. My sons first car, He bought and paid for this him self, but dad is the care taker of it until he turns 16 in about a year and a half. She's lean, mean and red. Price was right, it has less than 75,000 on it, sat for a lot of its life, Yes we had to throw a few extra bucks at it, some of the exhaust had  rusted away, it needed a tune up, and a brake master cylinder, other than that it is vey solid. She's 30 years old, but don't look a day over 20. Yummy! Oh yeah, Its numbers matching also

gbarnewall posted:

suzukovich posted:

Lione89: That definitely will make a nice looking tunnel portal. Anyway some more stuff arrived the other day. OK cool for me.

Atlas GN Steel reefer and a NP Waycar.

From  the rebuild shop Atlas ATSF Reefer. The Bolsters had zinc rote and  when I bought it awhile back. Finally got around to repairing it with new bolsters 

Two more truck for my collection

Scania LB 140 Super Road with Curtain side trailer and a Scania L110S FINA Tanker

 

Very nice Scanias there,do you have any more road haulage trucks?

 

Quite a few. Other bad habit 1/43/1/50 European trucks. I have three( 1970s DAF and 2 x 1950s Mercedes) more that I bought from a Dealer in Portugal, that should be here in three weeks. 

Yes,

a Lionel 250 box cab engine-great fun if a bit basic. and a Lionel 115 station; brilliant. I also bought a Marx 1404 target signal-sweet piece of kit.

Hot Box from LIONEL at Perris, 40 dollars in the box brand new!

With an interest in shortlines, and noting that Beebe and Clegg made reference to a book, "Slow Train to Yesterday", in their book, "Mixed Train Daily", I tracked "Slow Train" down and have it coming.

Trip to Niagara Falls, picked up my Millhouse River Transfer table.

Enjoy Eric. I hope you enjoyed your visit. Looking forward to seeing your layout.

Al

Picked up two new volumes of the books on Pa. lumber RRs at a local junk shop. (antiques?). Really good reading and at the back of the books are lots of pictures of people, equipment  and the trains with locos.

I just received this beautiful station from Crescent Locomotive Works. It fits an O-72 curve. My original plan was to place it in the rear of the layout, but due to changes I have made to the layout plan since I ordered the station, it would no longer fit in it's intended spot. I've moved it up to the front of the layout (much better visibility), but I can't use it in the intended manner (the three pieces should be end to end), but it still works for me.

And I went to Grzyboski's to pick up my 2015 National Train Day boxcar and, in a moment of weakness (and since Joe still had some in stock), I could no longer resist...

I passed on the 21 in. passenger cars - they are really too long for my space (and, frankly, I already have enough passenger cars!!!). And, since I am not a rivet counter, I have no problem using this beauty to pull my 20th Century Limited heavyweights.

Just picked up the Liberty magazine 11/23/46 issue in beautiful condition.   Really cool to see the catalog inside.  Plus it came with the separate price list.   Piece of Lionel history.  

new building and sand tower and a power plant custom built.

NO!  My buying is on hold for the moment...why?  We owe $2500.00 in taxes!!!  I could sure put that money to good use on my layout.  Oh well, I'm sure Mr. Obama will find something to waste it on.

Added this scale set of Lionel F3's ( 6-14536 & 6-14539 ) to the fleet.  Some modifications to cab lighting are in order, before the bulbs burn through the roof.  If it's not too destructive, I'll also try closing the gap between units.

From what I gather, these were the first scale F3 offerings by Lionel and they haven't been offered with Legacy yet?

Bruce

Another 1/43rd Nash Ambassador has arrived, a 1939 sedan (they are now offering a coupe, but towns with all coupes are not based on reality, just my fantasy), to go with the 1935 one I had...this is a lot of top of the line Ambassadors for the boonies I model, but I like "orphan" makes.  I hope it dawns on them to make a low-priced Lafayette, as they have a Terraplane for a low priced Hudson prewar example.  The model car makers lately seem better at putting out interesting models than do the train makers, and are getting my money.

http://www.lionel.com/products...tm-berkshire-6-82959

115th  Anniversary Legacy Berkshire

 Since my picture taking leaves something to be desired; she's a beauty!

Still can't believe I managed to find a train order sheet from the ET&WNC, but better still, it has locomotive # 12 listed on it, and is from the year and time of year my layout takes place!

p51 posted:

Still can't believe I managed to find a train order sheet from the ET&WNC, but better still, it has locomotive # 12 listed on it, and is from the year and time of year my layout takes place!

Lee

That's a great find.  How did you come across it?

suzukovich posted:

p51 posted:

Still can't believe I managed to find a train order sheet from the ET&WNC, but better still, it has locomotive # 12 listed on it, and is from the year and time of year my layout takes place!

Lee

That's a great find.  How did you come across it?

EBay has been very good to me lately for rare stuff. The funny thing with a RR that not-so-well-known, hardly anyone else wants the stuff, but among who do, well, money is sometimes no object.

I saw an employee pass from that RR from 1938, and it ended at just shy of $900! My Mom has always referred to that as having more money than sense.

Oh, I belong to that RR's historical association, and they just issued membership cards for the first time ever. I love mine that I got the other day in the mail!

My favorite person in the whole world dropped off a package of goodies. These are from the last Catalog. 5 more auto racks, a wood chip hopper from a set, now I have two  and two unloading/loading ramps. A few pics. I did not take them out of the boxes..........Paul

My new favorite :-)

Got this within the last week. MTH Preimer Westingtonhouse Schnabel and matching boxcar. These were a great find.

Chris

TrainingDave posted:

Picked up a brass Weaver John Wilkes. Wonderful engine.

Where did you find it; always liked this engine!