Buy anything cool lately?

@RSJB18 posted:

Very nice Paul. At least you matched the D&H color scheme with those.

Bob

Interesting observation, Bob, I hadn’t noticed that. But now that you mention it, the yellow stripe on the Alaska cars does line up pretty well with the level of the stripe on the passenger cars...

Paul those hoppers are gorgeous.  What's the minimum radius for them?

Waiting for the package to arrive!

@coach joe posted:

Paul those hoppers are gorgeous.  What's the minimum radius for them?

Thanks, Joe, they really are sharp. The hoppers are 14.5” long and require O-54 curves.

Delivered by Mr Postman today.   Perhaps not everyone's idea of cool, but they are to me. First a Marx New Haven E7 A-B with matching caboose.

Next the Lionel 1719 boxcar and 1722 caboose, not the best, but didn't cost much. Love the woodgrain door on the

boxcar.  Finally 4 new (to me) Lionel plug door boxcars. Three I did not have, thats gives me a total of 15 different

in about two months of collecting them. I had the Autolite one, just have to compare them and choose a keeper.

Thanks Paul, being radiusly challenged I'll have to pass on the hoppers.

Beardog, cool, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

No, I purchased nothing significant in the past couple of months, and glad of it.

I still run the trains I have, very pleased with all of them (I've never sold or gotten rid of any of them), and I continue to thoroughly enjoy the hobby while spending hardly any money on it lately.

I have spent a little for repairs and purchased some small things like smoke fluid.

The good news is that it is very possible, once you have the trains that satisfy you, to stop buying trains, and continue enjoying the hobby as much as ever.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:.

The good news is that it is very possible, once you have the trains that satisfy you, to stop buying trains, and continue enjoying the hobby as much as ever.

I don’t know about that Arnold. I enjoy the immediate sugar high that I get from regularly purchasing an endless amount of engines and rolling stock that I can’t possibly operate fully in my lifetime. Moreover, the thought of leaving it all to my heirs, who will practically give everything away at endless garage sales while thinking of me leaves a twinkle in my eye. Why would I ever want to stop buying now? LOL!

@Strap Hanger posted:

I don’t know about that Arnold. I enjoy the immediate sugar high that I get from regularly purchasing an endless amount of engines and rolling stock that I can’t possibly operate fully in my lifetime. Moreover, the thought of leaving it all to my heirs, who will practically give everything away at endless garage sales leaves a twinkle in my eye. Why would I ever want to stop buying now? LOL!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

No, I purchased nothing significant in the past couple of months, and glad of it.

I still run the trains I have, very pleased with all of them (I've never sold or gotten rid of any of them), and I continue to thoroughly enjoy the hobby while spending hardly any money on it lately.

I have spent a little for repairs and purchased some small things like smoke fluid.

The good news is that it is very possible, once you have the trains that satisfy you, to stop buying trains, and continue enjoying the hobby as much as ever.

Browsing and buying are probably more than half the fun of modeling IMHO!

The other 95% is running them.

Bob

@beardog49 posted:

Delivered by Mr Postman today.   Perhaps not everyone's idea of cool, but they are to me. First a Marx New Haven E7 A-B with matching caboose.

Next the Lionel 1719 boxcar and 1722 caboose, not the best, but didn't cost much. Love the woodgrain door on the

boxcar.  Finally 4 new (to me) Lionel plug door boxcars. Three I did not have, thats gives me a total of 15 different

in about two months of collecting them. I had the Autolite one, just have to compare them and choose a keeper.

Those New Havens look good. I started collecting those boxcars a year or two ago. Still looking for Wix and Chun King. There are so many variations on some of the cars as far as trucks and couplers. Then you can find the same car in a Scout version.

I’ve been looking for these MTH BMT Standards. I used to ride a three car set, they called the Bankers Sspecial  It ran on the Brighton line in Brooklyn and switched over to the IND in the tunnel and took us to the Nassau  loop which was Broad Street, Nassau Street and Fulton Street and in the evening it came back the opposite way and  Broad was the third stop. So now I’m thinking about incorporating a subway coming out from under Pennsylvania station.

Got a bit carried away this week and dropped $1400 on some auctions that I need to sneak into the house! Some I may have to just resell, didnt expect to spend that much. Just love the Electro Motives.

the wix and chun king are hard, but I saw one even rarer one recently. Special run for some hardware store

@RSJB18 posted:

Browsing and buying are probably more than half the fun of modeling IMHO!

The other 95% is running them.

Bob

Yogi Berra would be proud of your math, Bob

@Apples55 posted:

Yogi Berra would be proud of your math, Bob

Yes Paul, I was channeling my inner Yogi, Yoshi, Yoda...... 😂😂

Nothing special this week, just an Industrial Rail (pre-Atlas) FIRESTONE tank car that someone converted to two-rail using KaDee couplers and Intermountain Bettendorf trucks. I have a Menard's UTLX and a K-Line HOOKER tanker that use what looks like the same underframe tooling; this will make my conversion of one of those (probably the Hooker) so much simpler.

Just received the new Atlas O scale Trainman series - Southern X219 - Bay Window Caboose. I pre-ordered this model a few months ago from Mr. Muffins Trains. I thought it would look great running behind my Lionel Trainmaster Southern #6302.

Picked these up today, I've been looking for a good "44 tonner" for awhile now. Paid $100 for everything. The 628 is close to cherry condition!

Picked up a track cleaning car from Northeast Trains

I have a pipe load from a Lionel car that I will add to the flatcar for more weight.

Bob

PS- ordered the Menard's F3.....

@RSJB18 posted:

Picked up a track cleaning car from Northeast Trains

I have a pipe load from a Lionel car that I will add to the flatcar for more weight.

Bob

PS- ordered the Menard's F3.....

Nice, Bob! You’re going to have a fun time detailing it. I use a scotch brite pad on one mount and a wet solvent on the white pad for the other mount. It works reasonably well. Also, put on and end of train truck before you attach a roadbed to the top of the platform, covering up the truck screw.  Needless to say, I didn’t and had to rip up some of my detailing to install that thing.