Buy anything cool lately?

Great finds everyone! Very nice set there Cory!

Bob, I think you need another Reading car! LOL

@RSJB18 posted

I bought a Reading SW-1 last week so now I needed some proper rolling stock to pull behind it.

It's a vicious cycle.....

Very nice Bob !   I love Reading stuff.

@mike g. posted:

Great finds everyone! Very nice set there Cory!

Bob, I think you need another Reading car! LOL

Mike, only 1? 😜

Found a great deal on some Weaver Sinclair tank cars, came with the shipping box, three different numbers and die cast trucks, all for less than the cost of 1 on that auction site. Local trains shows have been very very good to me.

I've been wanting a loop of this since it came out but wanted to wait a year incase they needed to work out any issues. I won't say this often about the gimmicks of modern Lionel but this track is actually really cool. I want to get more of it and maybe even it use year-round for any temporary layouts I do.

@trestleking posted:

Very nice Bob !   I love Reading stuff.

Dont know how I've missed a Pennsylvania fallen flag for so long.

Needless to say that will be quickly corrected. 🤣🤣🤣

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

Dont know how I've missed a Pennsylvania fallen flag for so long.

Needless to say that will be quickly corrected. 🤣🤣🤣

Bob

Well, Bob… if you’re interested in Pennsylvania fallen flags, don’t forget the Erie, the Lackawanna, the Erie Lackawanna, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, to name a few

Seriously, of late, I have been trying to pick up pieces from lines that ran/run through my northeast corner of PA since I’ve lived there for 25 years now!!!

Wife picked out the METCA Life Saver flat. She enjoys train shopping.

@Apples55 posted:

Well, Bob… if you’re interested in Pennsylvania fallen flags, don’t forget the Erie, the Lackawanna, the Erie Lackawanna, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, to name a few

Seriously, of late, I have been trying to pick up pieces from lines that ran/run through my northeast corner of PA since I’ve lived there for 25 years now!!!

Well now you fellows are giving me a guilt complex because I haven’t thought much about fallen flags. However I am working on a few PRSL tangents. I picked up some Atlas PRSL passenger cars at a sale. I don’t have a PRSL engine. I ordered two Erie AS-616s from METCA. I am going to ship one right out to Christine to re do it as PRSL. The AS-616 was on the PRSL roster. In the meantime the Holly Beach hobby shop in Wildwood NJ is making a PRSL tank car and some Cape May sand cars. So then I sent a PRR caboose to Christine to also do in PRSL. I also have a steam engine on order from Mr Muffins that I’m waiting for Harry Hienkel to letter PRSL. All because I got a good deal on some passenger cars. 🤪

@pennsyfan posted:

Well now you fellows are giving me a guilt complex... 🤪

You know what that means, Bob… our work here is done

@leapinlarry posted:

Ok, here’s the Super Bass B unit, and in the catalog, 2022 signature, this was pictured with silver trucks, however, they are black and match the AA pair. The sounds are simply amazing, different from previous versions. Happy Railroading Everyone

Great looking set, Larry.

I've always liked the look of silver trucks and they're pretty easy to remove and paint silver, if the mood strikes you, like I did

with this Legacy MOPAC AA set that originally came with black trucks.

@Apples55 posted:

You know what that means, Bob… our work here is done

The voices are spreading!

@pennsyfan posted:

Mike, only 1? 😜

LOL I had one, now its gone! Some guy on the forum just had to have it!

@mike g. posted:

LOL I had one, now its gone! Some guy on the forum just had to have it!

@pennsyfan

Wonder who that was........

I needed to add something with fizaz to my Polar Express, so I just received these today from Train World Black Friday sale. I'm liking it! Happy Holidays!

Good thing I got the PE LionChief Plus 2.0 as it's pulling 10 cars now with electrical pickup rollers, that's a lot of drag and it has no problem. My original PE that came with the set would not be able to pull this consist.

@pennsyfan posted:

Well now you fellows are giving me a guilt complex because I haven’t thought much about fallen flags. However I am working on a few PRSL tangents. I picked up some Atlas PRSL passenger cars at a sale. I don’t have a PRSL engine. I ordered two Erie AS-616s from METCA. I am going to ship one right out to Christine to re do it as PRSL. The AS-616 was on the PRSL roster. In the meantime the Holly Beach hobby shop in Wildwood NJ is making a PRSL tank car and some Cape May sand cars. So then I sent a PRR caboose to Christine to also do in PRSL. I also have a steam engine on order from Mr Muffins that I’m waiting for Harry Hienkel to letter PRSL. All because I got a good deal on some passenger cars. 🤪

Bob, that's known as model train creep -- modest expenditure (~$200-$300) becomes much, much bigger (~$2,000+).  (It's similar to how the Pentagon buys new aircraft, ships, etc. or big public works projects cost 10X more than originally budgeted.)

My buddy did something similiar:  got a super deal on a 4 car set of LIONEL Northern Pacific dome cars N/OB at Spring 2021 York never having owned any NP items previously; and, has since spent thousands acquiring two sets of ABA TMCC equipped F-3 diesels and a mix of 18 or so custom painted, LIONEL, and K-line passenger cars--all because he got a good deal on those first 4 dome cars.

@Pingman posted:

My buddy did something similiar:  got a super deal on a 4 car set of LIONEL Northern Pacific dome cars N/OB at Spring 2021 York never having owned any NP items previously; and, has since spent thousands acquiring two sets of ABA TMCC equipped F-3 diesels and a mix of 18 or so custom painted, LIONEL, and K-line passenger cars--all because he got a good deal on those first 4 dome cars.

I started off with one derelict gi-raffe car... 

Mitch

@Pingman posted:

Bob, that's known as model train creep -- modest expenditure (~$200-$300) becomes much, much bigger (~$2,000+).  (It's similar to how the Pentagon buys new aircraft, ships, etc. or big public works projects cost 10X more than originally budgeted.)

My buddy did something similiar:  got a super deal on a 4 car set of LIONEL Northern Pacific dome cars N/OB at Spring 2021 York never having owned any NP items previously; and, has since spent thousands acquiring two sets of ABA TMCC equipped F-3 diesels and a mix of 18 or so custom painted, LIONEL, and K-line passenger cars--all because he got a good deal on those first 4 dome cars.

At least I know I’m not alone. 😜

@M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

I started off with one derelict gi-raffe car... 

Mitch

A friend of mine was repainting a set of 607 cars but he needed a roof for the obs. He found an obs with a good roof. Then that obs needed a train. He found a set where the obs roof was good but the car was messed up, so he repainted that set. That went on for a half dozen sets.

And the beat goes on.....

Another Reading car added to the fleet courtesy of a forum member.

You guys are a bad influence.......

Bob