Buy anything cool lately?

Now, that's a really COOL paint job!

That DL109/110 is a cool engine, period.  I ordered a CNW F3 instead of the DL109/110 only because of the length on my 0-42 curves.  I know it would navigate 0-42 but I thought it might not look good doing so.  I got my F3 set from Mr. Muffins, too, BTW -- great people.  I'm slightly second guessing my decision on the DL109/100, though,  based on your picture -- very cool and definitely belongs on this topic!

Scooped up my gp9. Going to turn into this:

My Latest haul of METCA exclusive Lionel Items

Lionel 460 G

5

Reverse colors Alaska Box Car

reverse colors St of Maine potato Car

7 Dwarf Mine Ore Cars

The Morrison Door factory had its grand opening this week. First Woodland Scenics building on the layout. Hope they release a Soul Kitchen Diner some day. Also preordered the Records and Recruiting Building.

Picked up one of the Lionel - Early Intermodal Yard Workhouses (Plug-in-play). I already had the MOW Workhouse and it is an excellent accent piece. So, I wanted to get the intermodal version as well to go in my trailer yard. Great piece that adds a lot of sounds and realistic bangs, clanks and orders from the boss.

This TTX TOFC with Tropicana trailer from MTH. I like these TTX cars because they're not RR specific and go well with any modern consist.

@gunrunnerjohn  -designed PCB LED regulator boards available on Osh Park arrived yesterday; and, the other components arrived from Digi-Key earlier in the week.  Will have plenty to do putting them together for my passenger car projects.  Thanks, GRJ.

Next time you may be able to save some money on a large batch of PCB's from overseas places.

I received my circuit breakers and TVSS diodes, also some banana plugs.

Oh- and this too! Got a good deal from a forum member.

Bob

Ordered the new Ford trucks auto carrier from Menards and picked up their crane and a four car dealer pack of New Haven boxcars along with it.   

The crane will come in handy for lifting the Hooker tank car after jumping the curve. The crane has some extra heavy weights to stabilize the bottom. In addition, the cab is adjustable up and down and the hook can be moved  forward and backwards along the crane arm and also up and down.

As to the auto carrier, the roofs of the top row of trucks was too high to clear my Lionel pier bridge by about 1/8" (don't ask how I know). Tried  to come up with various ideas for lowering the ride height of the auto carrier (it was not practical to try and remove the bridge and trim/sand/lower the overhead arches). Since I couldn't let the air out of the tires I decide to lower the tires into the floor.

The upper floor detaches from the super structure fairly easily and I then marked the location of each tire; removed the trucks; and cut small holes with a Dremel for the tires to fit into. Then re-painted the floor in chocolate brown; screwed the trucks back in place; and re-glued the floor back. It now passes through the bridge with no issues.

Richie, nice job on the Menards car carriers!  I hope I don’t have to do that with mine, but now I know what to do.

Personally, I would have put a few Mustang Convertibles on top and been happy.

@RSJB18 posted:

Personally, I would have put a few Mustang Convertibles on top and been happy.

That can be arranged on mine.  

@Mark Boyce posted:

Richie, nice job on the Menards car carriers!  I hope I don’t have to do that with mine, but now I know what to do.

Thanks, Mark - like I said, it would have been much easier if I could have just let the air out of the tires

Don't know if you have this bridge on your layout, but this is a picture of the Lionel bridge (with piers) in question (on my old layout).

Richie, great thinking!  But then again you could have just left them off somewhere on your layout! LOL

So I picked up these prints this last weekend at a garage sale for $10 each! To me a great deal!

I had a similar problem with MTH Auto Carriers and my Lionel 213 bridges. The bridge would have sheered the windshield down to the firewall. I really liked the sixties cars on the 5 carriers. I ended up picking up some Evans Auto Loaders with out loads and used the Ertl cars that came with the MTH cars. I also found plastic upper frames for the Evans. There are many red flats with different numbers that work with the Evans frames. If you look on the bottom of the flats you’ll see that they all have the same part number. Not being a purist especially when it comes to runners I was happy. I sold off the MTH Carriers to balance the books. Those plastic uppers can be found at John LaLima’s East Coast Train Parts.

I thought of that Mike, but it looks so good with all the cars, I just couldn't bring myself to leaving some of them off. Besides, it's almost impossible to unscrew the top row of trucks from underneath without removing the top floor anyway, so you're half way there already.

Nice prints and a great price - especially already framed.

I'm apparently in the acquiring phase of the hobby.  I have a humble list of locomotives I want to get and have carefully planned out when I'll be actively searching for them.  However, things took a turn when I made my first impulse buy.

Lionel 6-28503

I think the combo of the price, color scheme and lack of any other small diesels in my collection won the day.

@Richie C. posted:

I thought of that Mike, but it looks so good with all the cars, I just couldn't bring myself to leaving some of them off. Besides, it's almost impossible to unscrew the top row of trucks from underneath without removing the top floor anyway, so you're half way there already.

Nice prints and a great price - especially already framed.

I almost hit buy it now when  they released the car but knowing it wouldn't clear my upper level made me think clearly. 😂😂