Buy anything cool lately?

I purchased A pair of Lionel Scale ACF 2-Bay Cement Hoppers: BN and C&NW. I bought them at last week's train show in Boulder City (the Nevada Southern Railway Museum) for $75 for both cars (a great deal, by the way).

New restored Marx Commodore….51.00

Rich

Just found these williams cars for a great deal and in excellent condition!

They will go great with my postwar Lionel Banff Park observation car.

For just $120, from my local historical society's pop-up sale the other day, I snagged a K Line FA A-B-A set plus some new cars. The second A unit and B Unit are both dummies, and the B unit is later manufacture than the A so I can't use the tether, but it does have a horn! I also got a Wabash TOFC and Boxcar to continue building my "NKP-N&W-Wabash Merger" train. I'm a New York Central molder now, I guess . I went and renamed my layout, actually, to "Cleveland Short Line Ry." from "Cleveland & Western RR", as I discovered that the real Cleveland Short Line was a NYC leasee and had NKP trackage rights. I also bought a NYC work caboose to match my New York Central docksiders, but it needs some work as it has some damage I didn't notice when I bought it (I did see the little peg for the searchlight had broken and needed to be drilled out and replaced, but missed that the one side had a part that was snapped off. Fortunately it's still with the car so I just need to glue it back in place, and fix aforementioned peg and I should be good to go.).  

I'm very happy with my new purchases! The prices at the sale were very good, I'd be surprised if anything was left by the end of the day.

I also got a Lockheed Electra in Northwest Airlines colors from the local Savers the week before. It's a great, simple little model which cost me all of 75 cents!

Lionel L2a Mohawks, Pacemakers fantasy scheme, the Pacemaker freight set and these L2a as built version.

After a long hunt, I was able to locate GGD Powhatan Arrow Cars.

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

Been looking for one of these for quite a while now.   It's the single motor,  magnetraction version with coil couplers.

Aussteve,

looks good! Who makes it?

What is it and who makes it?

I am going to claim that it was a boxcab electric prototype that sat on J. L. Cowen's desk for many years.

But in reality I am sure it was handmade from a NYC 2344.  It's very heavy and has the horizontal engine (growler) and the front ends from the A unit (coil coupler and deflector).  The lights, pantograph and other hardware source is unknown.  The portholes have been filled in.  It is very well machined, engineered and built.  The magnitraction is not real strong but the rollers are not worn very much.  I'll probably try to add an electronic e unit if there's enough room.

I've seen some of this man creations at the bandit shows in the past but chose not to afford them.  They were all very unique, and  well made. 

It's cool to me.

I have been sorta looking for a switcher on and off for a couple years now.

I saw the switcher and ordered on Sunday. Right up my alley. Older style diesel, Alco, and Southern Roadname. They had 10 in stock at time of purchase. Now there's 4. Glad my wife suggested it for Fathers day.😀

@coach joe posted:

That is pretty cool. Kitbashing is something I've always wanted try.

@Trainbros89 posted:

After a long hunt, I was able to locate GGD Powhatan Arrow Cars.

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

@Trainbros89

They are beautifull cars. Are they 3-rail O? IF so, where did you get them? Who is the maker, GGD?

Thank you.

@Randy Harrison posted:

@Trainbros89

They are beautifull cars. Are they 3-rail O? IF so, where did you get them? Who is the maker, GGD?

Thank you.

Hey Randy,

These are 2 rail, GGD cars. They’re absolutely beautiful. I was able to get them on EBay for a very good deal.

Regards,

Greg P

A box of Peco code 124 bullhead rail 36" track sections.

Picked up a pair of PRR ore cars from Menards. Unfortunately, the printing on one got the fat-finger treatment.

The cars are well done otherwise for $20.00 ea.......

They are on the way back for exchange.

Picked-up these since I'm in the process of assembling a bunch of @gunrunnerjohn-designed regulators for passenger car LED light strips.

The caps I ordered 5 weeks ago must be on the really "slow boat from China."

Picked up this AF prewar passenger set from Bob Doyle at YORK. Clean set, great price.

Not sure if this qualifies as 'cool' but I have two garage sale 6819 helicopter flat cars with no copters and found a package of 2 Lionel copters, new in the blister pack for a really inexpensive price,  on epay of all places.  Even with shipping I consider it a steal.  No more load less 6819's after a couple decades.  Wonder what happened to the original copters?

I bought this:

And krieglok (Tom), sent me back this:

I bought this:

And he turned it into this:

To pair with this:

Thanks, Tom,  for the top notch work and lightning fast turnaround time.