Buy anything cool lately?

This just arrived this afternoon. I sold a set about 13 years ago. No idea why. I recently saw one and was immediately chasing the carrot till I found one available.

Added some heavy iron to the UP roster, the #80 Coal Turbine.  I had a search on eBay, and this one came up upgraded to PS/3, and I got it for $550, about what I was thinking of paying for the stock PS/1 unit.

The good is all the units appear to be in excellent cosmetic shape, and they all function independently.

The bad is the PS/3 installation was really bare bones, only headlights, sound, and of course power.  No couplers, no number boards or cab lights, and no backup light.  Obviously nothing I can't deal with, and all the hardware is already there except for the LED's and the two replacement couplers.

All in all, I'm quite pleased with the purchase, this rounds out my UP turbine collection.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Added some heavy iron to the UP roster, the #80 Coal Turbine.  I had a search on eBay, and this one came up upgraded to PS/3, and I got it for $550, about what I was thinking of paying for the stock PS/1 unit.

The good is all the units appear to be in excellent cosmetic shape, and they all function independently.

The bad is the PS/3 installation was really bare bones, only headlights, sound, and of course power.  No couplers, no number boards or cab lights, and no backup light.  Obviously nothing I can't deal with, and all the hardware is already there except for the LED's and the two replacement couplers.

All in all, I'm quite pleased with the purchase, this rounds out my UP turbine collection.

Nice find John, it’s highly detailed too! A lot of model for the price!! Congrats!

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Nice find John, it’s highly detailed too! A lot of model for the price!! Congrats!

Thanks, at over 4 1/2 feet long, I got a good price per/inch!

Well, I decided to fork out an extra $60 for a "non-Beta" Santa Fe F body diesel. Heck, it even came with a bonus A dummy! 🤣. It's my first MTH premier, and I'm pleased with the size and detail on it. First thing I did was take the white MTH battery of death out, and replaced with a bcr! Cleaned and serviced her. All ps1 functioning. Some day when I've honed my skills it may get an upgrade. Got the consist for her to haul.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Thanks, at over 4 1/2 feet long, I got a good price per/inch!

I could run that consist plus one freight car on my layout! 😁

@Junior posted:

I could run that consist plus one freight car on my layout! 😁

How about the caboose?

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

How about the caboose?

Just a nice boxcar with an etd

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Just a nice boxcar with an etd

How will you ever keep track of the end of such a long train.

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Just a nice boxcar with an etd

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

How will you ever keep track of the end of such a long train.

Could be a TET and FEF photo .

Two finds that made me happy on my quick trip to the Midwest.

I received this in the mail today.

Now I can hopefully get my Menards rolling stock to run through crossovers.

@John's Trains posted:

Just got this K-Line K2630-22 B&O Plymouth switcher from forum advertiser The Western Depot. It's part of a custom run they had made. (They also sell a gray on blue reverse of this scheme.) I haven't even tested the smoke unit yet, but love it already. The paint looks sharp and the detailing is better than all but one of my other engines. It comes with Kadee-style couplers installed, which is great for something this tiny, and they include Lionel type couplers in the box. I had planned on converting a box car to Kadee on one end to use as a transition car, but was surprised to read in the K-Line instructions that these couplers can mate to Lionel. I never expected that but am happy that I don't have to put the big couplers on this or make a transition car. The engine pulls 4 cars without a problem and I probably wouldn't pull more than that anyway.

Very nice John - Love me some Plymouths.

These pics were taken over 15 years ago at the Ocean County Society of Model Railroaders. A four unit powered coal train, and a single unit leading a very important candy special.

Paul

@Railrunnin posted:

Very nice John - Love me some Plymouths.

Paul

These pics were taken over 15 years ago at the Ocean County Society of Model Railroaders. A four unit powered coal train, and a single unit leading a very important candy special.

Dispatcher? That Candy Special's got to get through! Hold up the Express and the Presidential Special; those Reeses Pieces have priority!

Just received my MTA gondola from Nassau Hobby. This thing is awesome and for a great 4th of July sale price -

@Strap Hanger posted:

Just received my MTA gondola from Nassau Hobby. This thing is awesome and for a great 4th of July sale price -

SWEET!

Found a nice shed to park a couple of engines in! Now I have a true center piece to my little modest layout! Got a great deal from a fellow forum member.

Very nice Donnie.

Well I posted this before, showing my 785 trailing a pair of Lionel Madison cars and said I may add a K-Line 15" Observation to add a little variety.

I thought I had one on my ebay watchlist but I did not.  Searching for a K-line 15" heavyweight observation on eBay led me to Scott over at Trainz.com.  The Seneca Valley observation was a bit more than I wanted to spend and $20 more than the Lionel Babbling Brook he had, leaving me in a quandary.  Well I needed a baggage care and the K-Line was less than $30, in the cart, so i might as well go with the Seneca Valley, in the cart, and one more car to round out a 5 car train.  What should it be, a Madison, a 15" heavyweight,  well why not just go with the  15" Wappingers Falls Pullman?  So here they are.

Kudos to Scott and his staff.  I completed my order Thursday night and my package arrive around 1:30 pm today.  there were no original boxes, but each car was wrapped in about 8 ft of bubble wrap securely taped so the cars could not escape.  Top, bottom and sides also had bunch up brown paper further filling the space inside the box.

And here they are with the two Lionel Madison cars. Slightly more than six feet of train for the 785 to haul.  The size disparity is a little greater than I expected and the color difference is a little stark, but I think the combo will work, especiall with theprices I paid for the Lionel cars.

At first my plan was to run the two Lionel between the baggage and the other K-Line cars but I remember having a derailing problem running my K-Line Denali aluminum Observation with my MTH RK streamline cars around the 42" curves so I alternated the Lionels with the K-lines because the Lionel trucks have greater swing.

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

Found a nice shed to park a couple of engines in! Now I have a true center piece to my little modest layout! Got a great deal from a fellow forum member.

Nice Donnie.

This looks like my MTH unit........except mine only has a single stall.   Nice building for the price.

Glad you found a nice and unique passenger set up Coach! Enjoy that engine and consist.

Dallas, this one is the MTH dual engine shed. Pretty cool detail. Even has a crane on the inside!

Now, where is Paul? I think it's his turn to make and show a purchase... 👿👿