Buy anything cool lately?

While I was working on installing my new Emilio's Ristorante Italiano building posted earlier in this thread https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...8#164024807503081338 , the following showed up at my door! Emilio's is in the background with the outdoor tables and the green window awnings.

To make a long story short, I have been looking for the Lionel Legacy Southern Pacific F7 Black Widow AA (6-38757) set from the 2013 catalog for a couple of years now with now luck! I found this Lionel LionChief Plus 2.0 SP Black Widow F3 AA (2034130) from the 2020 catalog at Trainworld, and on sale! I decided I would try it out knowing that LionChief is pretty low end compared to Legacy and also semi scale. But Beggers can't be choosers as the saying goes, so I bit the bullet and went for it. At least now I have SP Black Widows on my layout.

Here's the Black Widow parked next to my Western Pacific Legacy F7 ABA set, and even with the Black Widow further back than the Legacy F7, you can see the difference. But, once the F3 Black Widows are running they look pretty good. Here's a video below pulling my K-Line not so prototypical SP Daylight passenger coaches. The consist still looks pretty with Black Widows pulling the Daylight paint scheme.

The quilling horn is a little sick sounding, but it only seems to be a problem when I'm running it with a CAB2 in TMCC mode. It much prefers to be run with the Lionel LionChief App connected with Bluetooth.

Happy Railroading and Happy Friday!!!

Quite a departure for me ... it runs on elecktrickery.... ( It will never catch on ..)

Sakai 301 freight set from the 50's

@lionelflyer

Score!

Nice looking set.

@lionelflyer posted:

Last week picked up a Lionel 1950 Golden Anniversary set (no boxes).  I would call the cars excellent condition and the engines only very good (stains, weak paint in some places, some mold release present) but with very nice decals.  There were a few other pieces (132 station, 364 log loader in box, 3472 milk car, 3461 lumber car).  The owner asked for $250 for everything and I think I can get about $50 for the extra pieces so $200 for the Anniversary set seemed like a good price.  I cleaned the engines up a bit and the set runs great!

Nice deal, you could probably get more than 50 for the extras. That is a desirable set.

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

While I was working on installing my new Emilio's Ristorante Italiano building posted earlier in this thread https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...8#164024807503081338 , the following showed up at my door! Emilio's is in the background with the outdoor tables and the green window awnings.

To make a long story short, I have been looking for the Lionel Legacy Southern Pacific F7 Black Widow AA (6-38757) set from the 2013 catalog for a couple of years now with now luck! I found this Lionel LionChief Plus 2.0 SP Black Widow F3 AA (2034130) from the 2020 catalog at Trainworld, and on sale! I decided I would try it out knowing that LionChief is pretty low end compared to Legacy and also semi scale. But Beggers can't be choosers as the saying goes, so I bit the bullet and went for it. At least now I have SP Black Widows on my layout.

Here's the Black Widow parked next to my Western Pacific Legacy F7 ABA set, and even with the Black Widow further back than the Legacy F7, you can see the difference. But, once the F3 Black Widows are running they look pretty good. Here's a video below pulling my K-Line not so prototypical SP Daylight passenger coaches. The consist still looks pretty with Black Widows pulling the Daylight paint scheme.

The quilling horn is a little sick sounding, but it only seems to be a problem when I'm running it with a CAB2 in TMCC mode. It much prefers to be run with the Lionel LionChief App connected with Bluetooth.

Happy Railroading and Happy Friday!!!

I like those engines, Scott. They make a beautiful train.

I received earlier this week the last stout auction winnings.

The MTH 5 unit twin stack set.

This will go great with my other two mth twin stack sets [SP yeller & BN green] and my lonely Atlas O Conrail Twin stack set.

@prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I received earlier this week the last stout auction winnings.

The MTH 5 unit twin stack set.

This will go great with my other two MTH twin stack sets [SP yeller & BN green] and my lonely Atlas O Conrail Twin stack set.

They look brand new great find. I don't do modern trains, but I like stack trains when their multicolored.

WOW! This is an UNDERSTATEMENT for this car! No wonder why this car has become hard to find!

Although a faux car for the ATSF prototype, it looks good. The pictures DONT really show the graphical impact of this car. Unfortunately the simulated preforated sides did a number on the blue logo application. The car still looks eye catching especially when surrounded by a sea of ttx yellow from previous runs.

I also picked up these two while im at it.

@Yellowstone Special posted:

I like those engines, Scott. They make a beautiful train.

Thanks Vern, I'm getting used to it. It does look pretty good on the layout, I must admit.

Well I posted this on the "Marx Trains" thread but thought It might also be of interest here.  I found this Marx mechanical set at a local train show last weekend.  It dates from 1952 and it appeared in the 1952 Sears Christmas Wishbook for the amazing price of $4.98.  What I found so fascinating was the condition of the set.  The cardboard sleeves separating the pieces were still present, the track is shiny, and the trains look as thought they have never been out of the box, at least not very often.

Here is the box cover, colorful and a little worn but not too bad for 70 years old!

The contents of the box inside, including the original cardboard sleeves to keep the items from scratching each other.

The locomotive and tender.  A clockwork, WHISTLING Mercury locomotive and a "grey band" NYC tender

Side view of the locomotive and tender

The rolling stock from the set.  The wheels on these don't even show any significant usage.

Oh and almost best of all...the ORIGINAL KEY was still in the box.

Well its not the most rare set but I thought the condition at its age warranted me posting it for everyone to have a look.

Best Wishes

Don

I was fortunate to acquire 3 early Lionel hard to find boxcars circa 1946 .

Bought an Atlas 60' boxcar and a friend weathered and hand graffiti'd it

My fleet of Milwaukee Road engines grew by one this past week with this Lionel Pacific from the Lionel 2003 Catalog Vol 2

My first BIG train...

I had these cool shirts made for York.

@Surefire posted:

Bought an Atlas 60' boxcar and a friend weathered and hand graffiti'd it

Love the Chicago style hot dog and is the other side Plankton from SpongeBob?

Hey Marty, I used to tell my people I would be in training for a couple days .

Wow, @MartyE, now that’s dedication, special Tee shirts for attending York, and you’ve chosen a very cool design, however I do not see “2022” on the shirts? I like the slogan “Traincation,”  and the steam locomotive. I suspect this will allow you to wear these shirts to future York meets. I will miss the LUG meet this year but I’m hoping you will give a detailed update after York. Thank you for sharing and showing your new creative tee shirt to us here on the forum. Happy Railroading Everyone

I went to a model train show this morning and got a VERY good deal on this book:

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, @MartyE, now that’s dedication, special Tee shirts for attending York, and you’ve chosen a very cool design, however I do not see “2022” on the shirts? I like the slogan “Traincation,”  and the steam locomotive. I suspect this will allow you to wear these shirts to future York meets. I will miss the LUG meet this year but I’m hoping you will give a detailed update after York. Thank you for sharing and showing your new creative tee shirt to us here on the forum. Happy Railroading Everyone

No date so I and others can wear it every year. No LUG meeting this year. Without Lionel it makes it difficult.