Buy anything cool lately?

Been lurking the Cabin Fever auctions since October.

They've been especially useful this year since I'm not able to attend York for the first time since 1999 (charter bus had to be discontinued, and I've no other way to get there)

I've obtained rolling stock from the MTH warehouse selloff, as well as pieces from unrelated auctions. I'll get around to documenting those in a later post, but I'll talk about this latest one since it's a single piece:

What I got at the auction is this Centerline track cleaner. The rollers and roller weight came from a separate order direct from Centerline Products.

You can see Cabin Fever made a little oopsie in naming the item The cool part was the selling price. All told, after auction, shipping/handling and packaging fees (yes, the shipping box is a separate line item on the invoice) I was in for just under $60 for the cleaning car. Which if you've priced a new Centerline, is an eye-popping savings

I plan to shine up the car with Nevr-Dull before putting it into service. The coupler on the right is bent upwards a little, which is keeping the knuckle from latching, so I'll have to remove the truck to straighten it. But those are little things.

Once I got the shipment tracking, I placed an order with Centerline for the rollers and the weight that goes in them. By sheer luck of order timing both packages arrived at my local post office here in The Bronx the same day (I watched their progress using 17track.net, which shows you all the in-between stops that carriers now hide from you on their offiicial tracking sites), which is even more fun to observe, being that Cabin Fever is in PA and Centerline is in CA.

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---PCJ

@VJandP posted:

Stumbled across a couple of these Lionel diecast tanker trucks. Didn’t know they existed. I have a bit of a current obsession going with my MPC Humble tankcars and when I saw these, had to get them. I picked up three of them.

Now I’m thinking I need to have a small refinery or distribution center scene on tthe layout.

Contact Alan Graziano of Sunday Scenic Showcase fame here on the forum.  He's a master of tank storage and refinery type models.

"When I found out that the 2 C-Liners I was expecting in April had been pushed out to September, I figured I had some unassigned funds to play with, so I decided to review some of the offerings from the forum sponsors (that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!!!)."  Like you really need a reason, Paul.

It is a mighty nice haul by the way.

Tom, I picked up a complete set of those containers years ago.  I had enough Lionel spine cars and a couple of K-line well cars that I didn't feel the need for the cars.  Subsequent to that purchase I landed another partial set of the containers, I believe it's short the UP container.

Great finds fellows, I picked up these sounds cars a few weeks ago, Happy Railroading Everyone

Here is what I have. Both MTH 999 ESE locomotives. They are really nice and run excellent. One from e-bay- new, the other from this forum. The difference between them besides the red/black bar on the front is the Maroon one was done with the 86in drive wheels while the Black one was done with the 70in drive wheels. The 86in drive wheel one was the one that set a speed record back in it's day. I had always wanted the 999 but I did not know MTH made two of the same one albeit with different size drive wheels. When I received my first one with the 70 in drive wheels someone commented they liked the Maroon on better, so off I went to look and find out why. I didn't even know there were two identical models with different wheels and colors. Then ironically one week later after I received my 70in one the 86in one  came up for sale on the forum and I grabbed it. These models don't come up for sale often, I've been looking to grab one for a couple of years now but the asking price is that of a Hudson, Niagara or Mohawk and I just didn't see the value in that. So I consider myself lucky to be able to grab two at a price that was acceptable to me. I'm happy with that!

Cabeese!

I bought this whole flock to get the METCA caboose.

I had planned to resell the others but now I’m thinking that the 7600

would work well with the soon to be released METCA Freedom Isn’t Free boxcar.

Also with the METCA GG1.

@pennsyfan posted:

Cabeese!

I bought this whole flock to get the METCA caboose.

I had planned to resell the others but now I’m thinking that the 7600 would work well with the soon to be released METCA Freedom Isn’t Free boxcar.

I would love to find the The M.A.S.H. 4077 Box Car (METCA car) (1901210) to go with the soon-to-be released METCA Freedom Isn’t Free boxcar.

@coach joe posted:

Tom, I picked up a complete set of those containers years ago.  I had enough Lionel spine cars and a couple of K-line well cars that I didn't feel the need for the cars.  Subsequent to that purchase I landed another partial set of the containers, I believe it's short the UP container.

Just received - today - that set of containers and spine cars. Going to take some time to check it out, but I love the graphics.

I started putting my Santa Fe passenger train together. It is all MTH premier fluted stainless equipment and will be pulled by this set ABA set of F7s…

So far I picked up an RPO, a sleeper/diner set and a full dome car…

Tom

@Krieglok posted:

I started putting my Santa Fe passenger train together. It is all MTH premier fluted stainless equipment and will be pulled by this set ABA set of F7s…

So far I picked up an RPO, a sleeper/diner set and a full dome car…

Tom

Very nice set Tom! I love covered wagons, and the passenger set looks awesome! Are the passenger cars 18 or 21”, it’s hard to tell from the photos? Like my new 15” California Zephyr cars they could use a few more passengers. I like the passenger with a newspaper in the dome car, that’s a nice touch. Would like to see them running on your layout one day. :-)

@Krieglok That is a great set.  I have the MTH cars as well.  Fantastic other than the vista dome lighting doesn't work.  I was told the wiring had rusted away.  Go figure.  Hope you have better luck.

So grateful to have added these recent additions to my collection!😁😎.

MTH KCS E8s #28 and 29 with B Unit

Atlas GM&O Merchants Dispatch Steel Sided Reefer

MTH PREMIER 4 car set of Amtrak Phase IV Superliners

Happy Modeling!

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Very nice set Tom! I love covered wagons, and the passenger set looks awesome! Are the passenger cars 18 or 21”, it’s hard to tell from the photos? Like my new 15” California Zephyr cars they could use a few more passengers. I like the passenger with a newspaper in the dome car, that’s a nice touch. Would like to see them running on your layout one day. :-)

Thanks Scott and JB.

Scott, they are 18” cars. A good size for me, not quite scale but very close!

Here is the guy sitting with the paper…a sailor!

JB, I will test the lighting soon. I have some more modern light kits I may use in the cars if they are needed…

Tom

Chicago Northwestern SD70ACE

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

Chicago Northwestern SD70ACE

Nice Corey.

Always enjoy your ' unpacking and comments to running the train  ' videos. 

Received my DT&I hat and tee shirt I ordered off Amazon. I was surprised to find the shirt patch was actually embroidered vs iron-on. Decent price but like everything these days - shipping cost was killer.

Check out daylight sales on Amazon

Picked a few items today the K-Line 1407 Boston & Albany new in the box.
The 665 needs some TLC but I didn’t have one.

The 628 is EX+

K-Line Blatz beer New in the box

Atlas Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines need some coupler work. They ran in my back yard how could I not get them?

pretty good for a mornings outing.

@pennsyfan posted:

Picked a few items today the K-Line 1407 Boston & Albany new in the box.
The 665 needs some TLC but I didn’t have one.

The 628 is EX+

K-Line Blatz beer New in the boxAtlas

Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines need some coupler work. They ran in my back yard how could I not get them?

pretty good for a mornings outing.

Definitely a fun looking morning outing Bob.                      You must live near a fun place to purchase trains.

Dallas,

Not really it was a private party referral. Worth the trip.