Buy anything cool lately?

The other day I took the train down to Ashland, VA for the day to check out the town. I ended up stopping in a hobby shop down there, a little pricey but it felt good to support a small LHS, and I picked these up (both MTH Premier):

Yes! I found a ZW-C new in the box and bought off a forum sponsor. I wanted a set up like Trainroom Gary's, with the 180 bricks powering my two mainline tracks, but also with throttle control because I am having a great time with my PW trains, like my original childhood loco in this video (modern tender BTW, from the 90s, which modern transformers trigger easily. In this video Using a CW80 which is wheezing along on its last legs.)

I realize this is total overkill considering it's a two banquet table layout, but I'm thrilled I found it. I hope that it works out of the box since it's never been opened, so fingers crossed.

A pair of Williams F3's in Boston and Maine paint from Mario's trains that my wife bought me for my birthday

and a set of Williams no name aluminum streamlined passenger cars I bought on ebay

They look great together and I can run the cars with other railroad names too.

Harleyhouse, beautiful diesels, Boston and Maine are a neat colorful paint theme., RJ I, really cool box cars, I like the background effects, Paul 2, cool pictures of the CN 70 Tonner, very nice, and the pup trailers are nice to, everybody has some really neat new trains to enjoy. I live in CSX Country, found this Legacy diesel to add to my fleet. Happy Railroading Everyone

Bought this:

and these:

betcha can’t guess which numbers I’m gonna use...

yep - can't guess - no image 

Of course... it gave me trouble trying to post... I thought I had it, I can see the pics on my end... grrr...

edit- I think I was able to get them on as attachments, are they there?

Yep - photos posted as attachments but not in the body.  engine and letter sheet

Well, at least they’re there... I keep getting error messages if I try to insert them in the post...

Surfing the F/S posts on the forum netted me these two beauties.

First up a K-line PRR Boxcab Electric these are neat little buggers, perfect for small layouts. Still can't believe K-line went belly up with these products.

Next is an MTH LIRR Ore car. I always grab LIRR stuff when I can since it's the home town RR.

Bob

To Quote Bob; "Surfing the F/S posts on the forum netted me these three beauties."

Did someone say Searchlight!? Thank you Kind Members!

I picked up this OO stuff along with this unused transfer table extension . There are three OO Hudson's and some scale craft passenger, Lionel freight cars and a track pack with it. Also included was this unused transfer table extension, American flyer S  and a whole bunch of old HO in boxes.

@Steaming Jon posted:

Well, at least they’re there... I keep getting error messages if I try to insert them in the post...

so you are using 568970225043 on that beauty engine? (awaiting you choice with bated breath)

<I was typing baited, because my breath smells like worms most of the time> "How do you catch so many fish when you are Ice Fishing??"  "Well, you have to keep the worms warm".

@AGHRMatt posted:

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

Matt, Thank you for all you bring to this forum as well. I Like your tag lines well enough to paste here. You are appreciated!

Matt Jackson
"The best service you can provide for the hobby is to pass on what you have learned."

Angels Gate Hi-Railers San Pedro, California

"Celebrating over 20 years of moving freight and passengers from Point A to Point A!"

@Miggy posted:

Matt, Thank you for all you bring to this forum as well. I Like your tag lines well enough to paste here. You are appreciated!

. . .

Thank you. I'm at a loss for words right now.

Recenty pick this on from a forum member plus the SS diner from a recent auction. The engine has been upgraded to 4 chuffs by swapping out the cam and using a pair of chuff switches, per master mechanic's Harmonyards technique to drive both chuff in and smoke fan. Makes wiring extremely simple. Waiting on paint to complete the engine deck.

Pete

Today UPS dropped off my package from Gryzboski's. Another pup trailer, more PS-1's with sound and a transfer caboose that will eventually be repainted. Pics.....................Paul 2

Finally received the 3rd Pullman Standard box car from MTH. They were originally offered only to MTHRRC members, but are now available to anyone.

Pullman Standard (MTHRRC) Box Car (20-93717):

Second one issued: Pullman Standard (MTHRRC) 40' Box Car (20-93900):

Last one in the series: Pullman Standard (MTHRRC) 50' Waffle Box Car (20-93916):

This one is longer than the others (because it's a 50 footer as opposed to the others being only 40 footers).

And all together:

I’ve purchased a few cool things lately which I hope to share this weekend. I also picked up a few things up today (RailKing stuff) at Cabin Fever Auctions from this week’s 7th MTH auction. I had never been to this place before and they were kind enough to allow me to take a picture of what i was told is a not yet auctioned MTH layout in a large wood event container. I just wanted to share. I kind of want this big box.

While we're on the Cabin Fever topic, I was fortunate enough to win this FA2 unpainted engineering sample (MTH 2016 v 2) in the most recent auction.  It will become Penn Central #1313 former NYC unit if I have my history straight.  Cool thing is it appears to have a rear electro-coupler which if I'm not mistaken the production units did not have, I think it was an A-B set when produced with dummy coupler between the A and B unit.