Buy anything cool lately?

Former Member posted:

Yup, got some more of these Hi-Levels. They are the coolest passenger cars.

Those superliners are just plain cool!  Absolutely LOVE your passenger depot.  Huge fan of passenger consists; is that the Spirit of the Century I see way in the back?  One of my favorites!!

AS Guy Fietti would say that isn't  good it's Great

Finally got a Weaver streamlined K4.

A set of Weaver NYC Alco FAs, a Williams Train Master, and some freight cars at a 40% "store closing" discount.

A MTH Premier B&A caboose, a custom run by Jr Junction in Syracuse, arrived today, what a beauty, love the color, interior details, marker lights etc.

I finally have a caboose to go with my B&A 4-6-6T…

Thanks to Phil at Jr Junction

@Craignor posted:

A MTH Premier B&A caboose, a custom run by Jr Junction in Syracuse, arrived today, what a beauty, love the color, interior details, marker lights etc.

I finally have a caboose to go with my B&A 4-6-6T…

Thanks to Phil at Jr Junction

Wow, love them both.

Took a vacation with the grandkids to Cape May, NJ. On an off day headed over to Holly Beach Train Depot in Wildwood. Unfortunately, there were no custom runs available, but I did find a couple of things:

A K-Line Big Boy #4009, I believe it's from 2002. Great price and look at that smoke!

Also found this Atlas 33,000G scale tanker.

@TimMacPA posted:

Also found this Atlas 33,000G scale tanker.

Nice! I work for suburban propane!

@RSJB18 posted:

Gotta start adding captions to your videos for him. He's very interested in the trains. Nice collection of new stuff too.

Bob

Thanks! Great idea, I’ll do that.

Ever since I saw this Weaver Pacific, I made it my no.1 priority to get. I watched ebay religiously every day and also other used train dealers. This is a Weaver I-4 Pacific and I am ecstatic to have been able to find one.

@Bill Park posted:

Ever since I saw this Weaver Pacific, I made it my no.1 priority to get. I watched ebay religiously every day and also other used train dealers. This is a Weaver I-4 Pacific and I am ecstatic to have been able to find one.

That is a beautiful locomotive. Congratulations on finding it!

John

@John's Trains posted:

That is a beautiful locomotive. Congratulations on finding it!

John

Very nice, Reminds me of Southern's PS 4, If anyone has a chance they can see a real PS 4 at the Smithsonian National History Museum.  her majesty is something to should not be missed if at all possible

@Craignor posted:

A MTH Premier B&A caboose, a custom run by Jr Junction in Syracuse, arrived today, what a beauty, love the color, interior details, marker lights etc.
I finally have a caboose to go with my B&A 4-6-6T…

Thanks to Phil at Jr Junction

I like the sound of that engine chuffing by! And a nice caboose to go with it.

Picked up three Lionel SF passenger cars (observation, baggage and coach) to go with the Menards' Bluebonnet beta engine and caboose I bought a few weeks ago. I painted on the blue and yellow "Bluebonnet" stripes and added figures to the interiors.

I might pick up another coach car to make a longer consist and hope Menards releases a dummy Bluebonnet engine to go with the powered version. Mine had a few minor issues, but has run well up to this point and, at the initial price point, is well worth it.

P.S. - I noticed the caboose was very wobbly in the video and have since added some weights to the interior and it now runs much, much smoother.

@Richie C. posted:

Picked up three Lionel SF passenger cars (observation, baggage and coach) to go with the Menards' Bluebonnet beta engine and caboose I bought a few weeks ago. I painted on the blue and yellow "Bluebonnet" stripes and added figures to the interiors.

I like what you did with the stripes. Who makes those passenger figures?  I'm thinking about putting figures in my LionChief Super Chief cars and the ones you found look perfect. What did you use to glue them in?

On an unrelated note, I also like that crane in the background.

John

@Richie C. posted:

I painted on the blue and yellow "Bluebonnet" stripes and added figures to the interiors.

Those blue and yellow stripes look really great Rich.

What was your paint and what was the method you used to apply it. ?        Nicely done sir.

Thanks, guys - I completely masked off the entirety of each of the cars with painter's tape (blue and green) leaving only the striping area and shot three coats with Krylon satin ink blue which was the closest color to the Menards engine blue that I could get with a rattle can. I covered that with gloss Clear so the next masking tape job wouldn't stick to or pull off the blue paint. I then applied tape from the bottom over the blue stripe for about four "ribs" high and from the top about two "ribs" down over the blue, leaving a thin width to apply the yellow paint over the blue and then shot it with Krylon yellow for about 4 coats. Removed the new top and bottom tape, leaving the original stripe width and shot that with Matte Clear to replicate the flat color of the Menards blue and yellow on the engine.

I've contemplated getting an airbrush system for many years. I'm sure it would give me finer control and not so much excess overspray, but just never pulled the trigger (sorry !). Spraying indoors, I use a 3M respirator as well.

Most of the people are the 0-scale EveModel people from China. I got a box of 100 painted, sitting figures for about $19.00 on the Big A. There are 4 each of 25 different figures and most of the duplicates are painted in different colors. I think I counted 20 actual duplicates, so you're getting at least 80 individual figures. There's two problems, though - one, they don't have eyes. I used a black ultra-fine Sharpie and solved that problem. Most are also too big to fit into the Lionel seats, so they had to be trimmed - shoes, feet and hips mostly and nothing that would be visible by looking through the windows.

However, for the upper observation car level, I knew that wouldn't work, so I bought a set of MTH passenger people which are much more detailed and smaller; fitting into the seats perfectly. However, at almost $2.00 per figure it would cost way too much to populate the rest of the cars, so that's where the EveModel people come in.

I used a fast set CA glue and toothpick to mount the figures - I don't see any reason why I'd be moving them in the future and want them to stay in place permanently, especially the figures in the upper level of the observation car.

John - the crane is the Lionel Legacy crane. It uses a separate track extension made by Gargraves that connects to my Fastrack siding. It's a terrific accessory and the kids love seeing it in action - see pics and video and apologize for the vertical aspect.

@Richie C. posted:

Thanks for the painting procedure on the passenger cars.   

Making thin lines on the ribbed models is a tricky job.   I would have a hard time trying to get as good a job using the two color method you used.   The rattle cans seemed to have worked well for you.   Nicely done Rich.

A nice Williams BL-2 and a Peterson Supply (Atlas) caboose in the Chesapeake Ohio Livery showed up at my door step. 🤔.  The Williams was from a forum member. I serviced , changed the speaker, tinted the cab windows, and added a cab bulb. Running nice and smooth!