Buy anything cool lately?

@RixTrack posted:

Just got his alternative car number 501 for my Super Chief Set.  It’s the LionChief set. I already found the long-discontinued B and A dummy units.  Now with two domes it really will be super!

RixTrack, nice find and great Santa Fe passenger set you have plus the FT ABA set, very nice! Cool display case too! I know you'll enjoy your set!!!

I have a set of those semi scale Sante Fe Chief passenger cars myself, and I found a standalone dome car too, so I have two dome cars in my set. I added a bunch of passengers to the set including in the domes. The passenger figures I bought from eBay, mostly Chinese cheapies from a Chinese seller and shipped from China. I also added some Lionel 21" passengers mixed in. I even have a guy on the crapper (first photo in in the left window). LoL

I pull my set with a Lionel Santa Fe F3 ABA TMCC set from 2004. It's showing its age compared to how my newer Lionel locomotives run.

Here's 3 cars in my set to show the passengers. The cars come alive with passengers.

You may notice in the photo of the observation car that I run the rear truck 180 out so the knuckle is sticking out the back. It looks better, IMO.

Have a great weekend and enjoy those trains!

This purchase is a bit unusual, but this is the second LIONEL General Motors Demonstrator TMCC F-3 running chassis purchased in the past two weeks from an eBay seller.

Both are new.  The first one checked out perfectly this morning on my club's layout.  This one will get tested later next week.

One of these will be stripped and the parts reinstalled on an identical frame already painted for my NP NCL train.

The other will be stripped and reassembled for my Texas Special train project.

I bought some more needed equipment from this seller, but I'll post about those next week after they arrive.

Picked up the following, a Lionel Sarage SD-4r0-2, powered and nonpowered, at Nassau Hobbies in Freeport, LI.  Both have very colorful graphics.  I plan to run both with another engine that was shipped to me, the Lionel Katy SD=40, from METCA.  This is another colorful Tezas Special engine.  in Texas Special graphics. 

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Hey Wood, I had meant to ask you earlier. Is your childhood "Prairie" Lionel's 2-6-4 #2037?  It is referred to as a Prairie steamer. If so, I also have that one. It pulls my first Lionel train set, the Cleartrack Special, which Santa brought me for Christmas in 1955. I still have it (with the engine refurbished a few years ago) and it runs very well.

@Yellowstone Special

Yes, Vern it is the Prairie 2-6-4 with the road number 2026. It shares the Boiler casting with the 2016, 2018, 2029 and 2037.  Same story in that it was a Christmas present around 1955. This train pulled our loads around the Christmas layout for many years.  My brothers and I loved the train wrecks, so we banged it up a little and had lots of fun. It still runs...

Got this from UPS yesterday.  Got it from a Hobby Shop that still had it new in stock.  Lionel 6-85180.

Great buys everyone! Some beautiful engines I’m seeing! Thanks for sharing!

Last week I had another shipment of cars arrive. This order consisted of 9 Menards cars and a Lionel Old Glory series of 3 boxcars.

First up are the nine Menards cars. Here they are: a Erie Lackawanna boxcar, Lehigh Valley boxcar, Lehigh Valley covered hopper, Union Pacific modern tanker, UTLX modern tanker, Quaker State Oil tanker, US Army tanker in camouflage, US Army modern tanker, and an US Army flat with Army Truck and HIMARS.

And here’s the Lionel Old Glory Series set of three boxcars that was included in this order.

An overall photo of this shipment.

There’s still more to come from this seller but we are taking a pause for York so more to follow afterwards!

@Richizzle07- Wow those are neat cars.  You are going to need (or do you have?) one big layout to handle all these cars.  They all look super however I especially like the tank cars.  Menards only offering 3 new at the moment so you scored a great haul!

Don

Over the weekend I went to The Great Northeast Model Train Show hosted by Bernie’s Model Railroad in Dunmore, PA. Great show and it’s the closest show to my house so that’s a big bonus. I grabbed 7 cars total. Would have been more but I’m holding out for York.

Here’s the cars I picked up. A Lionel Wonder Bread Bicentennial hopper, Lionel Planters Peanuts covered hopper, a Lionel PBR reefer (which was my grandfather’s favorite beer), along with 4 more MTH Christmas boxcars.

This was my second time attending this show and it’s always great! Here’s an overall photo of my haul.

@Don McErlean posted:

@Richizzle07- Wow those are neat cars.  You are going to need (or do you have?) one big layout to handle all these cars.  They all look super however I especially like the tank cars.  Menards only offering 3 new at the moment so you scored a great haul!

Don

Thanks Don! The layout is actually currently under a remodel so none have actually been used yet 😂. It’s a fairly small layout but I’ll have (as of now) three levels planned so it’ll add more space for running. My rebuild is in my signature if you’d like to check it out. I really like the Menards tankers though. A few more tankers will be arriving after York.

@Wood posted:

@Yellowstone Special

Yes, Vern it is the Prairie 2-6-4 with the road number 2026. It shares the Boiler casting with the 2016, 2018, 2029 and 2037.  Same story in that it was a Christmas present around 1955. This train pulled our loads around the Christmas layout for many years.  My brothers and I loved the train wrecks, so we banged it up a little and had lots of fun. It still runs...

Well, now that's pretty awesome! My 2037 was a little banged up too, but nothing serious. After coming back from the "refurbisher," it looks and runs like it did back in 1955.

Atlas Trainman D&H RS3 with Railsounds/TMCC. I have been picking up D&H rolling stock here and there with nothing to pull it with, so I'm happy to be adding the Atlas engine. This will be my 4th Atlas TMCC engine and I really like the quality and build. Others I picked up over the last 2 years as I have been swapping out what was all Christmas themed trains for real-world lines are a Rutland RS1, Green Mountain RS1, and Vermont Railway GP60.

@Mooner posted:

Atlas Trainman D&H RS3 with Railsounds/TMCC. I have been picking up D&H rolling stock here and there with nothing to pull it with, so I'm happy to be adding the Atlas engine. This will be my 4th Atlas TMCC engine and I really like the quality and build. Others I picked up over the last 2 years as I have been swapping out what was all Christmas themed trains for real-world lines are a Rutland RS1, Green Mountain RS1, and Vermont Railway GP60.

Atlas makes a nice product, and I bought the Vermont GP60 a few years ago.  The problem now is the Legacy system adds so many nice features, so I stopped buying Atlas engines.  Atlas started using the MTH DCC/DCS system so maybe I'll look at them again.

@Wood posted:

@Yellowstone Special

Yes, Vern it is the Prairie 2-6-4 with the road number 2026. It shares the Boiler casting with the 2016, 2018, 2029 and 2037.  Same story in that it was a Christmas present around 1955. This train pulled our loads around the Christmas layout for many years.  My brothers and I loved the train wrecks, so we banged it up a little and had lots of fun. It still runs...

Guys I am getting confused.  I thought a "Prairie" was a 2-6-2  configuration.

Ron

Picked this up, along with a bunch of other stuff, at a flea market out in the middle of nowhere. 20 bucks, and it runs great! Same can't be said for the Williams brass GS4 Daylight. I guess it's going to be my first learn-as-you-go-rebuild project. Still, only 20 bucks!

@PRRronbh posted:

Guys I am getting confused.  I thought a "Prairie" was a 2-6-2  configuration.

Ron

@PRRronbh

Ron, you are correct about the 2-6-2 Prairie.  Lionel's initial offering in1948-49 was a 2-6-2.  However, beginning in 1951 the offering became a 2-6-4.  In the real world the Prairie Steamer was 2-6-2.  They were made by Baldwin.

@Mooner posted:

Atlas Trainman D&H RS3 with Railsounds/TMCC. I have been picking up D&H rolling stock here and there with nothing to pull it with, so I'm happy to be adding the Atlas engine. This will be my 4th Atlas TMCC engine and I really like the quality and build. Others I picked up over the last 2 years as I have been swapping out what was all Christmas themed trains for real-world lines are a Rutland RS1, Green Mountain RS1, and Vermont Railway GP60.

Great looking loco. Love the road name too!

Mine's a Williams. Interesting differences in the colors.

Picked up this Lionel Disney EP-5 with caboose at a recent local train show.

Don't have a lot of Disney cars to pull behind it.  Here're a few.

They are cute and fun looking. Enjoy.

I bought a never run Lionel 6467 from an auction on Stout by a large collector.  Really mint shape.  It doesn't come with a load, so I bought some new pipes from the bay, and chained them down tight!

New to me K-line big boy.  The usual, replace all traction tires, age had got them.   Fix problem with coupler not staying coupled, oil and run.  Near 0 use from what I saw.. TMCC and everything works.