Buy anything cool lately?

@PRRick posted:

I got this 3 car set for $60 from a tier 4 set breakup.

That's a great deal!

Ordered this for my dad for Father’s Day. I will take a better picture once he opens it.

Dad will love it

I picked up this flatcar with bulkheads  on the bay. Just what I needed to replace my PW flatcar.

@pennsyfan posted:

I picked up this flatcar with bulkheads  on the bay. Just what I needed to replace my PW flatcar.

Bob,

That's a great looking car and pay load and a great looking setting you've put it in. Kudos on all accounts!

Tomlinson Run Railroad

@TomlinsonRunRR posted:

Bob,

That's a great looking car and pay load and a great looking setting you've put it in. Kudos on all accounts!

Tomlinson Run Railroad

Thanks so much!

@Dennis Holler posted:

It was a good thing, I was happy to take ownership of such a fine vintage blob of metal.

Totally

And the NYC obsession continues. Picked up an old school conventional MTH mohawk and some MTH cars. After a little tlc she's a nice smooth runner. Was actually able to fix the smoke unit! Love the detail on this and the Hudson for  conventional size engines!

Might as well get triple duty out of this guy! MTH RK NH GP9

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Have a post on the WTB for a ps1 fan driven smoker!

BTW, MTH still sells PS1 Smoke Units.

@Darrell posted:

Thank you sir! Just found it on their site. I actually fiddled around with the original smoke unit. Got it to run off a single heat element with straight track power. The circuit board was dead on the low side element. I may still look into a fan driven unit. Thanks for the heads up!

At least this next consist is a Union Pacific! Got a great deal for the this 90's LTI Dash 8 from a fellow forum member! Super clean unit. I just cleaned out all the baby poop brown grease, cleaned up the gears, and put some red and tacky in the right spots. Didn't have any unibody tankers , so I took advantage of Trainz 10% sale. Along with a smoking UP caboose! It just brings me back to the 90's when I could only dream of being able to afford a dash 8.

"Smokin" hot in a good why. congrats

These were delivered yesterday. Just to be different I videoed the new box cars rolling down the track rather than static photos. These are all nicely detailed models, I'm pleased. And my first white box car, which in the real world probably didn't stay white for long! LoL

Okay, weird right, Lehigh Valley box cars on a western railroad. Probably not likely, but I got them because my son is off to Lehigh College, Bethlehem, PA this fall to pursue an EE degree. It's his freshman year, and I thought it would be nice to have a reminder of him on my layout.

This just in from the Holly Beach Train Depot

Great design, Larry

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

These were delivered yesterday. Just to be different I videoed the new box cars rolling down the track rather than static photos. These are all nicely detailed models, I'm pleased. And my first white box car, which in the real world probably didn't stay white for long! LoL

Okay, weird right, Lehigh Valley box cars on a western railroad. Probably not likely, but I got them because my son is off to Lehigh College, Bethlehem, PA this fall to pursue an EE degree. It's his freshman year, and I thought it would be nice to have a reminder of him on my layout.

Very nice Scott. IIRC there's a nice little railroad that used to run in those parts....you may want to look for some of their equipment to pull those cars.....

@RSJB18 posted:

Very nice Scott. IIRC there's a nice little railroad that used to run in those parts....you may want to look for some of their equipment to pull those cars.....

Have you driven by the Railyards recently.   Frequently I drive down the 10 Freeway here in Cali.  alongside the old SP yards, and I see some stuff you wouldn't necessarily believe.  About a year ago I saw an actual Caboose.  wasn't long before that, A feather Western Pacific, boxcar.  Anything can happen anywhere. The railroads have an empty car, as long as it runs and there is a load for it, it gets run.  By the way great looking car.

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

These were delivered yesterday. Just to be different I videoed the new box cars rolling down the track rather than static photos. These are all nicely detailed models, I'm pleased. And my first white box car, which in the real world probably didn't stay white for long! LoL

Excellent idea of the video Scott.

That slower speed allows a good look at each of the boxcars.  Nice.

I bought some MTH Premier Union Pacific passenger cars

Picked up some shells on eBay and fixed 'em up using parts I had lying around...

Mitch