Buy anything cool lately?

@paul 2 posted:

Pup day Monday. USPS dropped off another one for me. Pic..............Paul 2

Bob, I have not worked on the layout for a long time..

Well...that's just wrong 😂

I'm sure the inspiration will hit soon 👍

Thanks to a heads up from AGHR Alumus John Pignatelli, I ended up buying this scale-wheeled addition to my motive power stable.

I took delivery of the Lionel semi-scale B&O hopper recently. Great model with lots of detail. Then while visiting family in PA I stopped by the LHS and picked a package of Scenic Expresses chain link fence. Finished installing it last weekend. I put it around my oil tank facility to keep the deer out! I want to get another package of fence to go around the front of the facility.

@ncdave posted:

I took delivery of the Lionel semi-scale B&O hopper recently. Great model with lots of detail. Then while visiting family in PA I stopped by the LHS and picked a package of Scenic Expresses chain link fence. Finished installing it last weekend. I put it around my oil tank facility to keep the deer out! I want to get another package of fence to go around the front of the facility.

Dave. Nice Hopper. I also like that short Switch you have in the second pic nice job.

Pup day Tuesday. Fedex dropped off this today. Nothing else coming for a few days. Pic.............Paul 2

Mike g, Mark and Bob, I wish I had wall space for shelves.

Possibly the last new FL9 Penn Central floating around out there and an unpainted pair of E8As from Mike's farewell auction that will receive black paint and white worms.  Also snagged unpainted Un-Powered scale SD45 and Powered GP20 to also become PC.  Three models they never produced in Penn Central.

@paul 2 posted:

Pup day Tuesday. Fedex dropped off this today. Nothing else coming for a few days. Pic.............Paul 2

Mike g, Mark and Bob, I wish I had wall space for shelves.

Paul, I have that problem too, Paul.  There look great too.  I really like the pup cars, I don’t know why I don’t have any.

Received some interesting cars recently:

6-52011 - Tucson Cornelia & Gila Bend RR Co. Ore Car:

A pair of Angela Trotta boxcars (waiting for the 3rd in this series to be available):

2038110 - Angela Trotta Thomas 'Well Stocked Shelves' Boxcar - Middle Shelf:

And this one: 1938030 - Angela Trotta Thomas 'Well Stocked Shelves' Boxcar - Top Shelf:

6-26300 - UPS® O27 Flat Car with 2 Trailers:

K691-5103 - Circus Transport Railroad Double Deck Stockcar:

MTH 30-74057 - Fort Knox 40' Window Box Car with Gold Load (with windows closed):

With windows open:

Menards 279-4523 - Amtrak® Station:

I was excited (& relieved) to get a call that my MTH Erie-Lackawanna pass cars from my Nov 2019 preorder were in !  Thanks to Rich @ English's Model RR Supply in Montoursville, PA !  Not a big passenger train fan but I will have this one on my layout to remember the sunset of EL passenger train services.

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Trestle king, those E-L cars look good. As I traveled on the Phoebe Snow and other name trains on the DL&W and E-L, they have a place in my heart. I have both O gauge and HO models.

@paulp575 posted:

Received some interesting cars recently:

6-52011 - Tucson Cornelia & Gila Bend RR Co. Ore Car:

A pair of Angela Trotta boxcars (waiting for the 3rd in this series to be available):

2038110 - Angela Trotta Thomas 'Well Stocked Shelves' Boxcar - Middle Shelf:

And this one: 1938030 - Angela Trotta Thomas 'Well Stocked Shelves' Boxcar - Top Shelf:

6-26300 - UPS® O27 Flat Car with 2 Trailers:

K691-5103 - Circus Transport Railroad Double Deck Stockcar:

MTH 30-74057 - Fort Knox 40' Window Box Car with Gold Load (with windows closed):

With windows open:

Menards 279-4523 - Amtrak® Station:

Another addition (6-52011 - Tucson Cornelia & Gila Bend RR Co. Ore Car; sometimes referred to as the "1993 Gadsden Pacific Museum Car"). Just need to find something to change the color of the ore as I've never seen white ore:

Last Saturday, a friend and I were railfanning the Reading & Northern and the Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad in PA. While changing locations, we realized we were close to Grzybowski's... I walked out with two LionScale freight cars, a Lionel puzzle, and a Lionel license plate so I can put on my vehicle.

Yesterday my grandfather and I traveled to Stockyard Express to pick up their limited edition Camp Clariborne water tower. I almost walked out with their display model of the MTH Army flat car with the M16 Half-track, but I didn't due to the guns on it were broken off... (I'm looking at alternatives)

Long story short, I'm working on building a WW2 Army train as part of a family genealogy project that we've been working on for a few weeks now.

Love Grzybowski's. Beautiful store. Nice people.

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Trestle king, those E-L cars look good. As I traveled on the Phoebe Snow and other name trains on the DL&W and E-L, they have a place in my heart. I have both O gauge and HO models.

@Artie-DL&W,  that's a great memory to have.  These cars will be mixed in to "recreate" a Trains magazine center spread from years ago showing an Erie pass PA with an EL PA and mixed baggage cars at maybe Middletown, NY.  I always thought it was a cool scene.

I bought a new water tower, I really like it, it’s a little more detailed than the Railking one I had for the last twenty years. Has sound too, and one button to activate it which I have on my control panel, and it’s wired to my AIU so I can also run it with my remote or phone.

Its made by Broadway Limited, I bought it from Nicholas Smith.

Rear view:

PRR Switcher LC 2.0. Pulling LIRR 027 cars for a “ short line” this little engine looks great on a small layout! Love it!

Today was CN day with more pup trailers. UPS dropped off these on the back deck for me. A Canadian National Williams 70 tonner which I got from Marios for a great price and the Lionel Legacy GP-9 set with pup trailers from Western Depot which was their last one. Pics...............Paul 2

@paul 2 posted:

Today was CN day with more pup trailers. UPS dropped off these on the back deck for me. A Canadian National Williams 70 tonner which I got from Marios for a great price and the Lionel Legacy GP-9 set with pup trailers from Western Depot which was their last one. Pics...............Paul 2

Very nice looking set.

Wow, Paul!! 

@paul 2 posted:

Today was CN day with more pup trailers. UPS dropped off these on the back deck for me. A Canadian National Williams 70 tonner which I got from Marios for a great price and the Lionel Legacy GP-9 set with pup trailers from Western Depot which was their last one. Pics...............Paul 2

Nice Paul. I love that 70, too bad William's  doesn't have a livery I run. Probably just as well.....😂