Buy anything cool lately?

suzukovich posted:

Dennis Holler posted:

Got these real nice Athearn O scale  box cars in one Ebay auction and then the three below  in another.  The caboose is a 1930's Walthers Crestline kit that needs some rehab.  The last four boxcars, I think, are all Walthers kit build as well.

I think you and I were watching the same listing/auction.  I also think there is another on E bay now referencing the top CB&Q reefer.  Nice haul!!!!!

I see the the one you are referencing on ebay now, he has a low starting bid.  I've been trying to limit myself to picking these old cars up in lots instead of singles.  A lot of these cars needed trucks or trucks fixed, but over time I've managed to pick up quite a bit of parts for these old scale kit cars.  I find them pretty neat and 10 time cheaper than a new Atlas car.  That said, I still like a good Atlas billboard reefer   Either way, these are fun and are definitely something different.  Instead of tinplate, how about Woodplate

I picked up a couple of Weaver Alaska RR 4 bay cylindrical hoppers with the die-cast trucks.

Found these in the Blue Hall at York. After a very good clean up and lube they run as nice as they look. The 6466WX tender also received new pick up roller wiring.

I found the 2426W tender at the Seaford Fire Company train show a couple months back. A really good clean up, lube and new pick up roller wiring it whistled like a champ. {I am considering restoring it given how faded Lionel Lines is on each side}.

The best part is, I didn't spend much be cause they are runners!

I got this 1915 Model T at the Hooksett NH train Show along with a few other cars.  The bed was broken off the body w/o a floor.  I used some strip balsa to replace the floor and stained it oak b4 poly.  I then attached the bed back to the body.  Sorry that the photo is so dark.  It's now part of today's Antique Car Show.

thanks to member Jim O'c, I learned about a Hornby Pullman named after our oldest daughter, and he sent me an auction link for one. made an offer and got it. Missing the roof, I had an idea a Lionel 1682 caboose roof would fit. I had a rusted junker,cut the roof off, and had to shorten it. Fits perfect, but my roof is rusted too bad, so off to find a less junk junker.

I was just going outside to cut grass and Mr. Brown pulled up and dropped off a nice package I had been waiting for. My 8 door high cube box cars and my Heinz Vinegar cars. Pics................Paul

This metal sign arrived yesterday. Kinda wanna put it centered on the front facing board go the Std. Gauge layout table, but Tom is saying no. He hates to see it cover up even part of the nice mahogany wood. He's right of course. We'll talk about other ideas of a place where it could possibly go.

Carey,

Very nice sign!  My daughter and son-in-law gave me one like it for Christmas a year ago.  I had it on the front of my temporary and Christmas layout like you suggested.  It is awaiting a spot on the new layout.

Mark Boyce posted:

Carey,

Very nice sign!  My daughter and son-in-law gave me one like it for Christmas a year ago.  I had it on the front of my temporary and Christmas layout like you suggested.  It is awaiting a spot on the new layout.

just wish their was an MTH Std Gauge tinplate traditions ones and an Ives trains one too.

Carey TeaRose posted:

This metal sign arrived yesterday. Kinda wanna put it centered on the front facing board go the Std. Gauge layout table, but Tom is saying no. He hates to see it cover up even part of the nice mahogany wood. He's right of course. We'll talk about other ideas of a place where it could possibly go.

and the negotiations begin!!

Carey TeaRose posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Carey,

Very nice sign!  My daughter and son-in-law gave me one like it for Christmas a year ago.  I had it on the front of my temporary and Christmas layout like you suggested.  It is awaiting a spot on the new layout.

 

just wish their was an MTH Std Gauge tinplate traditions ones and an Ives trains one too.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Carey TeaRose posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Carey,

Very nice sign!  My daughter and son-in-law gave me one like it for Christmas a year ago.  I had it on the front of my temporary and Christmas layout like you suggested.  It is awaiting a spot on the new layout.

 

just wish their was an MTH Std Gauge tinplate traditions ones and an Ives trains one too.

Papa, very COOL- where can one find this one??

Carey TeaRose posted:

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Carey TeaRose posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Carey,

Very nice sign!  My daughter and son-in-law gave me one like it for Christmas a year ago.  I had it on the front of my temporary and Christmas layout like you suggested.  It is awaiting a spot on the new layout.

 

just wish their was an MTH Std Gauge tinplate traditions ones and an Ives trains one too.

Papa, very COOL- where can one find this one??

It came from Ande Rooney, but I no longer see it on their site.

Steve

will look for it.

Picked up an Igra freight set from the Czech Republic on the cheap.  Loco, tender, tank car and gondola. Two pass coaches too, however, they are missing roofs. The cab roof on the loco is yellow, which doesn't come up too often and it was flaking but I found a 1954 Caterpillar tractor spray can that match almost exactly, and it has been repainted since the photos. So I too will be making a couple of roofs, probably from a plain automotive sheet metal panel and add some gray paint to match the original appearance.

here is what the boxed passenger set looks like.

Prices are usually ridiculous and shipping from Eastern Europe equally challenging, so I got a really good deal from someone who didn't know what they had.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Carey TeaRose posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Carey,

Very nice sign!  My daughter and son-in-law gave me one like it for Christmas a year ago.  I had it on the front of my temporary and Christmas layout like you suggested.  It is awaiting a spot on the new layout.

 

just wish their was an MTH Std Gauge tinplate traditions ones and an Ives trains one too.

Had to get this one: we dance, I sing, and we both swear!

Enablers here, cheer for your "success" with me!! ... Papa told me it won't fit for Std. Gauge... but I wouldn't listen... it kept calling me... tantalizing me with its bright and shiny colors...

Plus its so darn cute, and this one is in great condition. I'll have Tom add metal pieces to it and I can paint them to build it up if need be, I'll find a way to have this work for me on the layout!!

I stumbled across this for very little coin. It has a real deco look to it, and it looks like pressed stainless:

Lee, I like it. Ash trays are taboo these days

Matt Makens posted:

Lee, I like it. Ash trays are taboo these days

I also scored a Clinchfield one a while back, with the early steam locomotive logo.

But I don't know what I'll do with them as I have no place to display them really and I don't smoke anyway (and never have).

Well, they're for smoking so use em to hold your smoke fluid funnels and pipets

I picked this up at a train show.  I suspect that it is 1/32 scale. 

Allegheny, if its plastic armor it is most likely 1/35

Been looking for one of these for years. A friend in Minnesota offered it for sale so I took it. Super rare, not cheap.

Plastimarx 666 with long tender and 4 wheel plastic coaches. Plastimarx was Marx of Mexico. Their products always had a US Marx or Hafner equivalent, except these coaches. Strictly for Mexico production which is why they are seldom seen. The 666 is actually a 999 with different graphics and number board, the tender is the large Nickel Plate tender sheet metal.

Steve

I actually got these a few months back at a TCA show in Ringgold, Georgia. 
Two scale steam locomotives! One from Lionel, the other from K-Line. 

The Lionel steamer is the very well known Southern Railway 4501 in her famous green and gold scheme from the excursion program.  This version was made in the 90's and is a pre TMCC model, but is the closest to an exact replica of the 4501 I've seen in any scale (in other words not using a USRA Mike and slapping the paint scheme on it). 
This is a model I've been looking for ever since I started O-scale, but could never find in good shape or for a price that wasn't completely ridiculous. 
The second steamer is my first steamer from K-Line. A New York Central 4-6-6T Suburban Tank engine. 
This little engine immediately caught my eye for some unknown reason! 
It's got TMCC and railsounds on board and also was weathered at the factory! 

I got both of these from the same dealer, Memory Station, and the owner gave me a killer deal for both of them! 

What's even sweeter is that both of these beautiful scale steamers can run on O-36 curves! Which means that I can run them on any part of my layout. I have two loops on the main level (O-72 and O-54) and an O-36 loop on the lower level. 

The only modification I plan on doing (to the 4501) is adding TMCC so that I can run it with my remote with command control as my layout is almost 100% TMCC and DCS operated. 

With these purchases, my steam fleet grows to six engines! 

Allegheny posted:

I picked this up at a train show.  I suspect that it is 1/32 scale. 

Kazar,

Wow, it looks so real!  I love larger scales!  Why did I model in HO and N for 40 years??

Stirling R. Callahan posted:

I actually got these a few months back at a TCA show in Ringgold, Georgia. 
Two scale steam locomotives! One from Lionel, the other from K-Line. 

The Lionel steamer is the very well known Southern Railway 4501 in her famous green and gold scheme from the excursion program.  This version was made in the 90's and is a pre TMCC model, but is the closest to an exact replica of the 4501 I've seen in any scale (in other words not using a USRA Mike and slapping the paint scheme on it). 
This is a model I've been looking for ever since I started O-scale, but could never find in good shape or for a price that wasn't completely ridiculous. 
The second steamer is my first steamer from K-Line. A New York Central 4-6-6T Suburban Tank engine. 
This little engine immediately caught my eye for some unknown reason! 
It's got TMCC and railsounds on board and also was weathered at the factory! 

I got both of these from the same dealer, Memory Station, and the owner gave me a killer deal for both of them! 

What's even sweeter is that both of these beautiful scale steamers can run on O-36 curves! Which means that I can run them on any part of my layout. I have two loops on the main level (O-72 and O-54) and an O-36 loop on the lower level. 

The only modification I plan on doing (to the 4501) is adding TMCC so that I can run it with my remote with command control as my layout is almost 100% TMCC and DCS operated. 

With these purchases, my steam fleet grows to six engines! 

Yes, there they are, Stirling.  Really nice!  I sure like the Southern green!

Really Cool!!!

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Been looking for one of these for years. A friend in Minnesota offered it for sale so I took it. Super rare, not cheap.

Plastimarx 666 with long tender and 4 wheel plastic coaches. Plastimarx was Marx of Mexico. Their products always had a US Marx or Hafner equivalent, except these coaches. Strictly for Mexico production which is why they are seldom seen. The 666 is actually a 999 with different graphics and number board, the tender is the large Nickel Plate tender sheet metal.

Steve

Great find Steve. I guess they needed an excuse to get rid of of all those excess 7-inch tenders and 999s. Saw one advertised at an auction years ago with an additional Pullman boxed as set numbered 5107.

Allegheny posted:

I picked this up at a train show.  I suspect that it is 1/32 scale. 

Nice, but kind of odd, as that's a WW2 Willys or Ford Jeep in ETO markings, yet there's a Vietnam-era helicopter crewman standing at the driver side front corner. And it looks like a couple of 'Nam era figures are also in and around the Jeep as well based on how their web gear looks...

Just bought an MTH Premier 765 Nickel Plate Berkshire today, and I can't wait for it to arrive.  I will post some pictures when it gets to my layout.  This has always been one of my favorite prototype engines but it has taken me years to find one I could afford.  I have a long coal train just waiting for it to haul.

Rolland

P51  Great observation. This is just how the figures are set up and it look like they fit perfectly. The one figure with the fellow with 1 foot in the jeep any other outside is the only position that this figure  is suited for.  Thus the Willys Jeep must've come with this set of figures. I don't know that for sure , as it could've been kit  bashed. However all the figures are the same size and painted very well. I had to do some repair on the jeep as the  tires have opposite cambers to them. So I created a set of metal axles drilled out the frame and set them into it. Now they're perfectly straight .

Mark,   I agree these larger scale's allow for greater detailing and look much more realistic than the smaller scale. 

A litho doll house for my Std. Gauge layout.

First of 2 or 3 litho dollhouses I'll be looking at getting for this layout.

A litho barn, for the train people's trains to be put in, have a dance floor for them, and/or store a car perhaps.

Carey, 

My wife and one daughter are interested in dollhouses.  I have found a lot of dollhouses and accessories are close to 1:48 if not exact.  Good finds on your part.

Mark Boyce posted:

Carey, 

My wife and one daughter are interested in dollhouses.  I have found a lot of dollhouses and accessories are close to 1:48 if not exact.  Good finds on your part.

I'd love to see what ones you have. Please post some pics

Bought and installed Bachmann's true blast plus sound unit.

p51 posted:

Allegheny posted:

I picked this up at a train show.  I suspect that it is 1/32 scale. 

Nice, but kind of odd, as that's a WW2 Willys or Ford Jeep in ETO markings, yet there's a Vietnam-era helicopter crewman standing at the driver side front corner. And it looks like a couple of 'Nam era figures are also in and around the Jeep as well based on how their web gear looks...

A group of reenactors calling in their order for lunch break!

I'd NEVER thought I would score this!

After all this time of saying I was going to get the book I finally got Barry's book. Mr. Brown dropped it off today. ..........Paul