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Awesome buys as usual everyone! For some reason this thread seems to help with justifying my continuous purchases hahaha.

I posted last week saying I was going to calm down on the train purchase’s. Well a flea market and another trip to Grzyboski’s sure didn’t help with that.

First up are the couple of items I grabbed at Grzyboski’s. Here is a reefer car I felt I needed to add to my collection. It’s another Hamm’s Beer car. This was my late brother’s beer of choice so I now have the 2 of 3 cars that I’m aware of.

Here’s the other few items I picked up at the train shop. One is a plasticville house under construction and the other is a Lionel lumber shed. Picked up the remainder of short tubular track sections they had too.

Up next are my two flea market finds. Three packs of Life Like trees I picked up along with a Hershey Tractor Trailer to add to the large assortment of Hershey items I’ve been gathering. It’s not to scale which works with my layout since I use matchbox vehicles due to the limited space.

Until next time, Happy Railroading everyone!

Great finds Rich. Are you in the Hershey area?

@Tranquil Hollow RR posted:

Great finds Rich. Are you in the Hershey area?

Thanks Jay! The Wilkes Barre area but I’ve been to Hershey Park several times and I buy a bag of their miniature chocolate’s nearly every week so it seemed fitting to grab the Hershey related items.

@Richizzle07  Oh the Hamms brings back memories of a simpler time, and now the jingle is rolling around in my head  - I think it ended Hamms mmmmm.  Back then the drinking age was 16 in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. If it wasn't -- nobody cared. 

1950s Hamms Commercial

@ScoutingDad thank you for sharing that! I’ve never heard/seen that before. Gotta love those age requirements in the woods! Hahaha

Picked up the 11705 Chessie Unit Train today, the dual-pullmor SD40 is a nice runner and the Centerflow hoppers look great.  I have a bad feeling this isn’t the last of these SD40 sets for me, I’ve liked the BN Limited since I was a kid and I’m a Conrail fan so the Conrail Limited will be on the list too.

Yes, I’m a floor runner for now.  Gotta fix that soon.

I remember The Land of Sky Blue Waters part.

That SD40 sure was smooth as it passed in review.

Here's a custom NASA searchlight car I scored of eBay.  The LED lighting runs of a battery underneath with a push button switch.

And one of the K-Line Operation Iraqi Freedom cars to add to my USAF train that's a tribute to my daughter's service in the USAF.

@Coach Joe, now that’s a cool searchlight car, very nicely done. Also the Iraqi Freedom rocket car is neat to, good buys. I ordered a couple of B&O Heavyweight cars from a fellow on the forum, I’ll show pictures when they arrive. Happy Railroading Everyone

Realized that my NP North Coast Limited train lacked a plain old coach, so this one will do as a donor:

Also, my train club buddy, Murf, has gone on a NP NCL kick of his own and added this scarce LIONEL large door baggage car to his growing fleet which now numbers 12 aluminum 15" cars.  (I served as his purchasing agent.)

@coach joe posted:

I remember The Land of Sky Blue Waters part.

That SD40 sure was smooth as it passed in review.

It’s surprisingly smooth! I’ve never had one of these SD40’s before so I wasn’t sure how it would run.  I would imagine it’s a stump puller too, with Magnetraction and dual motors.

At my 3rd visit in 3 weeks to Caboose Stop Hobbies, I found this brass WM RS3.  It just "had" to come home with me.  I don't even run 2-rail but I have an affection for Alco's.  I put some pics of Caboose Stop Hobbies on my "Eastern Iowa LHS recommendations" post ,  truly a dangerous place for your train budget !   Rich in SD

Nice buys everyone! I’m adding to this thread again! Twice on the same page so I’m clearly not calming the purchase’s down. 😂

I’ve been wanting this item for my farm scene for awhile now so I went down to a LHS today and picked up the Woodland Scenics Old Weathered Barn. Great details!

Happy Railroading Everyone!

Bought this Brass Weaver Pennsylvania GG1 from a sponsor TRAINZ. Here is a short video of it running at the back of my layout. Not too bad a puller considering there are no traction tires present. I'll have to figure out what size it needs. I did not realize how few of these were made. #167 of 243 made.

Thanks to @gunrunnerjohn @MELGAR and @GG1 4877 for their help and assistance on answering my questions regarding these engines. These guys are what makes this forum so much fun to be a part of. Thanks again guys. 

@ScoutingDad posted:

Bought this Brass Weaver Pennsylvania GG1 from a sponsor TRAINZ. Here is a short video of it running at the back of my layout. Not too bad a puller considering there are no traction tires present. I'll have to figure out what size it needs. I did not realize how few of these were made. #167 of 243 made.

Thanks to @gunrunnerjohn @MELGAR and @GG1 4877 for their help and assistance on answering my questions regarding these engines. These guys are what makes this forum so much fun to be a part of. Thanks again guys.

ALWAYS glad to provide a little help whenever I can.  That looks great running on your layout!  I'm a bit jealous as I don't have a layout to run mine on these days. 

The traction tires from MTH and Williams will fit on the Weaver GG1 as they use the same tooling.

@ScoutingDad posted:

Bought this Brass Weaver Pennsylvania GG1 from a sponsor TRAINZ. Here is a short video of it running at the back of my layout. Not too bad a puller considering there are no traction tires present. I'll have to figure out what size it needs. I did not realize how few of these were made. #167 of 243 made.

Looks great Jeff.

I guess overhead cants will need to be included in your next layout. 😂😂

Bob - you are killing me with the prospect of more work.  I have been accumulating HO scale overhead catenary pieces to try a live overhead.  (yeah no one will notice except me.)  I am going to need a lot more.  Probably will use scalerail's methods for the Milwaukee Road - old post and OGR article.  I've almost lost count - but I have this GG, the early P5a version, 2 box cabs Milwaukee Road and Great Northern, 1 Milwaukee Road bi-polar, 1 trolley and 1 interurban. Hard to believe I had none of this 3 years ago.

Scored a couple Legacy KCS ES44's

These cars are replacements for my original MTH Conrail Work Train RTR Set, 30-4019-1, from 1998. Originally offered with RK Conrail Dash 8, I replaced it with the Conrail RK SW1500 PS2, which introduced me to the pain of owning PS2 5v engines. The cars included with the set were the gondola, work caboose, engineering car, and crane tender. The crane car and bunk car were the only add ons for this set, AFAIK. I haven’t found a tool or kitchen car offered by MTH. My original set went swimming with Sandy. I got this for a very good price off wEpay. I now pull it with the PS3 RK Conrail RS3.

Mark - great recovery set, best of luck with it. Really looks sharp.

Best Wishes

Don