Buy anything cool lately?

Went to my first train show of the season yesterday spent a total of $21. Got the Marx CP for $20 will be repainted for a project and the High Speed Trains sign was $1 thought it was cool though not sure who made it not markings on it.

@Southern4501 posted:

Yes sir.  The box is to the left. I will snap a photo of the flap for ya.  

LOL, I didn’t look close enough I thought that was another freight car.

@paulp575 posted:

@Scrambler81 - What is the SKU for that awesome looking boxcar?

Sorry for the delay, I work odd hours.

@Scrambler81- OK the Hobby Shop logo is a good memory, but you missed the most beautiful thing on the car.  USS New Jersey, BB-62 an Iowa Class Battleship.  At 887 ft long and 45,000 tons she would outweigh most locomotives for sure.  She earned more combat battle stars for combat actions than the other three completed Iowa class ships.  She also provided gunfire support for action in Vietnam. She certainly makes me proud of my home state.  Go Navy Beat Army!!

Don

@Khayden93 - the "High Speed Trains" sign is also by Marx, it is the #314 Crossing Sign.

Don

@Scrambler81 posted:

Sorry for the delay, I work odd hours.

@Scrambler81 - Thanks. I found one at Grzyboski Train Store! I love the graphics.

I got this.   Slowly building a PRSL set.

Purchased another Lionel 15" aluminum UP offset dome car, 6-19121, from Trainz' website which was described as "like new." Close inspection showed spider web-like cracks throughout the yellow paint:

This paint defect is common for this particular car.

A brief exchange of emails with Trainz customer care (which must have shift work since they sent me an email at 1:07AM!) resulted in the refund of a portion of the purchase price. So all is good.

Also, Lionel's parts sale turned $800 into $400; THANK YOU, LIONEL!

(Click on an image to enlarge.)

@RixTrack posted:

I got this.   Slowly building a PRSL set.

Anything with an animal gets extra attention.  four legged people are the best kind

@RixTrack posted:

I got this.   Slowly building a PRSL set.

It’s a great car, I picked it up along with a Western Electric boxcar also PRSL. Sand cars are on the way.

@pennsyfan posted:

It’s a great car, I picked it up along with a Western Electric boxcar also PRSL. Sand cars are on the way.

I just realized when I got the call from Berwyn's; that’s the new one that you have. There was a scale one in Tuscan released a few months ago.

@RixTrack posted:

I got this.   Slowly building a PRSL set.

@RixTrack - Who manufactured the car and do you know the SKU?

I saw this Jet Budd car a few months ago and put it on my wishlist. A few offers showed up on eBay. This one was still in the sealed box and was over $100 less than some used ones. When I won it I went after a trailer that was listed and made an offer on that.

@paulp575 posted:

@RixTrack - Who manufactured the car and do you know the SKU?

@pennsyfan- Great Jet Powered RDC.  Its hard to believe that NYC actually built and tested a car like this.  Given the poor experience in the steam fleet with steam turbines, I don't know what they expected but I can almost guarantee they didn't get it.  Those turbojets would have been voracious on fuel at anything but near full power.  In addition they needed the speed of flight compressing the atmosphere to even get that good.  Mounted on a 50-60 mph railcar would not have been ideal at all.

But its a cool model and a neat addition to the toy train world.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@pennsyfan- Great Jet Powered RDC.  Its hard to believe that NYC actually built and tested a car like this.  Given the poor experience in the steam fleet with steam turbines, I don't know what they expected but I can almost guarantee they didn't get it.  Those turbojets would have been voracious on fuel at anything but near full power.  In addition they needed the speed of flight compressing the atmosphere to even get that good.  Mounted on a 50-60 mph railcar would not have been ideal at all.

But its a cool model and a neat addition to the toy train world.

Don

and the jet-wash blew passengers off of the platforms......

@pennsyfan posted:

@RixTrack - Thanks. Found it; it's a special order for one of MTH's dealers.

Ordered.

@RixTrack posted:

I got this.   Slowly building a PRSL set.

Now, I want to make it very clear up front, I am NOT trying to be one of those pesky bad influences you meet here abouts but… Forum sponsor Berwyn’s Trains (who did your car) also did another run of PRSL boxcars which came out earlier this year (though I believe they were Premier).

@Apples55 posted:

Now, I want to make it very clear up front, I am NOT trying to be one of those pesky bad influences you meet here abouts but… Forum sponsor Berwyn’s Trains (who did your car) also did another run of PRSL boxcars which came out earlier this year (though I believe they were Premier).

@Apples55 - Okay; another Berwyn's special order? Do you have the SKU? I found it on their website, but it's out of stock. Maybe I can get luck and find it online somewhere.

@RixTrack posted:

I got this.   Slowly building a PRSL set.

Nice,  Did anyone notice the one pictured is road number "78" ? The one already delivered is road number "45". I'm waiting for the 33 and third one to be produced next ...