Buy anything cool lately?

Correction, Lawn Guy Landers!

@coach joe posted:

Correction, Lawn Guy Landers!

😂 😂😂. I do love that woman though. She's entertaining. And she grew up loving model trains. So, we have that in common.

Grand Strand Model Railroaders, here in Myrtle Beach, hosted a train show this weekend.  I went yesterday spent a lot of time looking and came home with this.  The first table was loaded with die-cast,  The Corgi Cities Service tanker immediately caught my attention for $20 then the Corgi busses for $20.  I didn't really need another bus but I do remember busses in NYC being painted like that.  The two plastic trailers were meant as flat car loads but the vendor threw in the two semis. The tender and submarine flat were $5 under the table finds for possible future projects.

The Pepsi suburban had to come home to go with this Menard's Pepsi van.

I took advantage of the two day wrist band and returned today.  As I said yesterday involved a lot of looking and indecisiveness.  I've been wanting a Lionel 785 Hudson and have been thinking about some Madison or smaller heavyweight style passenger cars  and both were present.  Actually two 785s were at the show but both were priced much higher than I wanted to spend.  There was a Williams 773 that was visually similar enough to the 785 at a very agreeable price>  A quick search on my phone revealed an old OGR Forum thread that had me concerned. so i felt a more thorough search on the matter was in order.  A couple of two car sets on NYC Madisons and a 4 car set of Lionel Lines HW were available and a reasonably priced new style C&O ballast tamper caught my eye.  Being so close to the show I decided to return home and research the Williams 773.  Thanks to the very knowledgeable people here on the forum the decision was quickly made to pass on the Williams.  I returned to the show today thinking about the passenger cars and maybe the ballast tamper.  While walking the hall I noticed one of the vendors had dropped his price on the 785 to $350 and I was even able to get him down another $50.  The club had a 4x8 display set-up and a few tables with items for sale.  What I thought was a 180 watt brick yesterday was actually a GW-180.  For $120 I think I did okay.

@coach joe posted:

Grand Strand Model Railroaders, here in Myrtle Beach, hosted a train show this weekend.  I went yesterday spent a lot of time looking and came home with this.

I returned to the show today thinking about the passenger cars and maybe the ballast tamper.  While walking the hall I noticed one of the vendors had dropped his price on the 785 to $350 and I was even able to get him down another $50.

Very nice haul, Joe. Didn’t Ralph Kramden drive a bus on Madison Avenue??? I also remember the green/light green/yellow buses from when I was very young.

Gotta love the 785 - it was very nicely detailed for its day. Unfortunately, since it is only conventional, mine is a beautiful shelf queen.

A recent train related item from everyone’s friends at the Post Office…

@coach joe posted:

Grand Strand Model Railroaders, here in Myrtle Beach, hosted a train show this weekend.       I took advantage of the two day wrist band and returned today.                              For $120 I think I did okay.

Way to go Joe.   ( no sense letting the second day go to waste on that wrist band  ) 

Looks like you had a lot of fun at the train show .   

@coach joe posted:

Grand Strand Model Railroaders, here in Myrtle Beach, hosted a train show this weekend.  I went yesterday spent a lot of time looking and came home with this.  The first table was loaded with die-cast,  The Corgi Cities Service tanker immediately caught my attention for $20 then the Corgi busses for $20.  I didn't really need another bus but I do remember busses in NYC being painted like that.  The two plastic trailers were meant as flat car loads but the vendor threw in the two semis. The tender and submarine flat were $5 under the table finds for possible future projects.

The Pepsi suburban had to come home to go with this Menard's Pepsi van.

I took advantage of the two day wrist band and returned today.  As I said yesterday involved a lot of looking and indecisiveness.  I've been wanting a Lionel 785 Hudson and have been thinking about some Madison or smaller heavyweight style passenger cars  and both were present.  Actually two 785s were at the show but both were priced much higher than I wanted to spend.  There was a Williams 773 that was visually similar enough to the 785 at a very agreeable price>  A quick search on my phone revealed an old OGR Forum thread that had me concerned. so i felt a more thorough search on the matter was in order.  A couple of two car sets on NYC Madisons and a 4 car set of Lionel Lines HW were available and a reasonably priced new style C&O ballast tamper caught my eye.  Being so close to the show I decided to return home and research the Williams 773.  Thanks to the very knowledgeable people here on the forum the decision was quickly made to pass on the Williams.  I returned to the show today thinking about the passenger cars and maybe the ballast tamper.  While walking the hall I noticed one of the vendors had dropped his price on the 785 to $350 and I was even able to get him down another $50.  The club had a 4x8 display set-up and a few tables with items for sale.  What I thought was a 180 watt brick yesterday was actually a GW-180.  For $120 I think I did okay.

Jackpot, next stop, . . .Vegas?

How about this?

Picked up a smoke damaged Milwaukee Road Little Joe PS2.  Smoke is cleaning up OK, but will never get it to pristine condition. That's OK, a foray into weathering?

Bought an Atlas Wisc Southern Box car with an Air Force logo at the recent train show in the Grand Rapids area. Sold it to a guy who wanted it and had to go to this car to get some cash. He happened to ask for it while I was walking away.  $23 is what I paid,  should have insisted on $50 he wanted it so bad. Oh well I was feeling charitable at the moment. Very little O, but these were a bunch of nice HO guys from Kelloggs Country. Photo taken with permission.

@Dennis Holler posted:

This nice 80ish year old Parmele &Sturges NH EP3 showed up today. No zincpest with these!

Would

love to have one but layout is too small.
obx

Paul I think Ralph did "brive a dus, I dus a brive," on the Madison Avenue line.

The stamps are really cool.  Are they current like I can go to the PO and buy them or did I miss them?

Coach Joe

While you might find them at a local PO you can just go to the on-line USPS store at Railroad Station Stamps

Wow, there’s some great purchases pictured here today. My Lionel Legacy Katy SD70 finally arrived and it works right out of the box. Happy Railroading Everyone

After acquiring LIONEL TCA 15" aluminum passenger cars, including the skytop lounge observation car, to paint as a UP "City of ..." train, I discovered the LIONEL Milwaukee Road Hiawatha version of the prototype which has the simulated stainless steel (?) "Hiawatha" script, among other unique features. UP acquired Skytop lounges from MR and painted them in the distinctive yellow/gray and red stripe livery.

UP prototype photo:

UP skytop loung observation car images - Yahoo Image Search Results

So one popped up on ebay today and bought it:

It's definitely a premium car by Lionel:  unique extrusion, the "Hiawatha" band; and added roof details among other distinctive features.

Surprised to find these show up as single item listings occasinally.

PS:  If anyone would like a great deal on a TCA skytop lounge observation car, my email address is in my profile.

A train buddy in our local train club sent a link about this soldering tool. It just came today and I used it. After heating the target; a slight squeeze on the trigger dispenses just enough solder.

Interesting tool:   Amazon.com : saker soldering iron kit

Sounds interesting. May have to get one,  another of my interests, is playing jazz. Bought a Baritone Sax on Ebay, turned out to be a boat anchor, but trying to restore it, and I tried to solder a piece back on but it snaps right back off when I put it back together, and yes i totally clean the area to be soldered

while I was at the York show yesterday I picked up the MTH Railking Amoco Tank Car 30-73552 from Just Trains and the Fisherman's Wharf Display sign from Holly Beach Trains.

@Guttersnipe,

I ran into something similar.  Look at the reply from @gunrunnerjohn on this post.

Not from York, but this came yesterday. I saw one the other day from a member post and had to get it. I just started adding MTH Premier rolling stock to my collection.

Gene

@Bob Dixey posted:

while I was at the York show yesterday I picked up the MTH Railking Amoco Tank Car 30-73552 from Just Trains and the Fisherman's Wharf Display sign from Holly Beach Trains.

Can you elaborate on the sign? Pictures?