Buy anything cool lately?

Waaaaay cool. Thanks to your daughter for her service. do seem that power wagons a different era then the Rocket. , but, as Isaid before It is your railroad.  Beside there could have been a blue unit, Kind of like the American version of the British  Mosquito

This just arrived yesterday. It will enable me to  move  forward on my project of the restoration of a wrecked Alaska GP9.
In case you haven’t seen my previous posts

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...c/173175223039705504

Thanks to Calvin for making the shell available.

Picked up  NYC H10 44 from Trainworld.

The backstory on this car.
My Grandson just graduated from the Black Bird Academy in Nashville TN. He studied sound engineering. He also has a band. He is working with Clair Global, he’ll be working on the setting up of the Taylor Swift this weekend.  When this showed up on EBay I thought it was nice tribute; but also thought graphics would look better on a boxcar. I tried to stimulate interest at METCA to create such a car; but found out that a boxcar with guitar graphics did not make the cut for the Nashville convention. So here is the flat car with crates of Martin & Co guitars. Lionel didn’t even put a Roadname on the flatcar, ugh.

@Sitka are you a spruce? See the 2nd crate from the right .

@pennsyfan posted:

The backstory on this car.
My Grandson just graduated from the Black Bird Academy in Nashville TN. He studied sound engineering. He also has a band. He is working with Clair Global, he’ll be working on the setting up of the Taylor Swift this weekend.  When this showed up on EBay I thought it was nice tribute; but also thought graphics would look better on a boxcar. I tried to stimulate interest at METCA to create such a car; but found out that a boxcar with guitar graphics did not make the cut for the Nashville convention. So here is the flat car with crates of Martin & Co guitars. Lionel didn’t even put a Roadname on the flatcar, ugh.

@Sitka are you a spruce? See the 2nd crate from the right .

Had to look that up, A Sitka spruce tree pretty cool our wolf (Husky) is named after Sitka the first town in Alaska well they think they are Wolfs they play rough with other four legged animals. Now I have to buy a small Sitka to plant pretty cool Pennsy!

As the Late Great Ed Sullivan would have said great shoew

New York Central fire car, with trailer for all the electronics.

That are a cute little critter, reminds, (and I'm dating myself) of a little critter that was in HO, DECADES AGO. That, on a four wheel rubber band drive and looked like a small upside down shoe, with a propeller on the back that would race around the tack a high speed.

Been busy with a club-related project and haven't really had time to photograph anything. Here are a few recent acquisitions.

MTH Rail King GP7 w/Proto3. It's a freight unit.

MTH Premier GP9. Passenger setup, but I'm going to see if I can get a scale tank for it.

Atlas Trainman Rock Island PS4750 Covered Hopper. I'm going to patch this one for CNW and switch it over to scale wheels.

In my never-ending quest for York-related car offerings, Weaver 2010 Fall tour. Like the other Weaver cars in my collection, it will be outfitted with Kadee couplers and Intermountain scale wheels.

Paradise and Pacific did a special run of Weaver tank cars for the 25th anniversary back in 2000. They had several cars left, so I bought a set. These will get the Kadee/Intermountain treatment.

I missed out on the TCA Strasburg snow plow, but snagged this one.  My first Nickel Plate Road buy. The Red is beautiful and the white lettering and accents pop.

Today, at the Milwaukee Lionel Railroad Club, #401 pulled its first train!

Really Nice, thank you

My first actual Williams engine and rolling stock Crown Editions. The paint finish on these are great. Along with a Weaver caboose. Really like the Sharknose Diesels! Along with the Delaware and Hudson paint scheme. When I first ran these I finally understand why the motors  need to be rewired in series. What a difference! And super easy to do. Runs so much better and slower.

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

My first actual Williams engine and rolling stock Crown Editions. The paint finish on these are great. Along with a Weaver caboose. Really like the Sharknose Diesels! Along with the Delaware and Hudson paint scheme. When I first ran these I finally understand why the motors  need to be rewired in series. What a difference! And super easy to do. Runs so much better and slower.

Do you have a couple videos of the in series wiring of the motors BEFORE and AFTER running results ? 

Nice lookig diesels.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Do you have a couple videos of the in series wiring of the motors BEFORE and AFTER running results ? 

Nice lookig diesels.

Unfortunately I didn't. But, if you go to YouTube and type "Williams sd45 wiring series" there's a gentleman that did a 3 part video on the results.

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Unfortunately I didn't. But, if you go to YouTube and type "Williams sd45 wiring series" there's a gentleman that did a 3 part video on the results.

Thanks for the heads up Donnie

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

My first actual Williams engine and rolling stock Crown Editions. The paint finish on these are great. Along with a Weaver caboose. Really like the Sharknose Diesels! Along with the Delaware and Hudson paint scheme. When I first ran these I finally understand why the motors  need to be rewired in series. What a difference! And super easy to do. Runs so much better and slower.

Ahhhh… the D&H - now you’ve gone down a deep rabbit hole, Donnie. And the sharks are sharp (just ask Bob @RSJB18 ). From experience I can tell you Alco PA’s in D&H livery are also gorgeous!!! You may wish to review/add to this thread 
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...ware-and-hudson-fans

@Apples55 posted:

Ahhhh… the D&H - now you’ve gone down a deep rabbit hole, Donnie. And the sharks are sharp (just ask Bob @RSJB18 ). From experience I can tell you Alco PA’s in D&H livery are also gorgeous!!! You may wish to review/add to this thread 
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...ware-and-hudson-fans

Great thread! I actually had the Lionel MPC D&H diesel a while back. I've currently ran out of room with all my recent acquisitions. No longer will I allow you gentlemen to be a bad influence... 😂. Yeah right... To be continued.

MNot a fan of Alco's normally, but In my opinion, there isn't a prettier Diesel then the Alco PA, no matter what the livery

This is a little late "After York Purchases" but I finally got around to taking a couple of pictures.  Before York, I purchased the Lionel Girl's set from a fellow OGR member with a pick up at York.  Since I now had the Girl's set, I visited one of the delaer's in the Orange Hall that was selling custom pastel colored freight cars.  Below are pictures of the four cars I picked up;