Buy anything cool lately?

Ok, got this K-line Mike from Trainz at a great price. I anticipated the signal sounds wasn't going to work, so I already had a sound board and speaker awaiting. Well, got her all serviced and running. Then, unfortunately the ol reverse board gave up and I had a smoking tender. 😂. Contacted Trainz, and they offered a very fair discounted partial refund. That allowed me to get a Dallee 400 e unit. Now she runs flawless with some nice K-line wood reefers! Thanks again to Scott and the great team at Trainz.

Picked up the IRBM car at the Raleigh NC show to go with the 470 missle launching platform   Original missiles and tie downs.

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

That allowed me to get a Dallee 400 e unit. Now she runs flawless with some nice K-line wood reefers! Thanks again to Scott and the great team at Trainz.

If you don’t mind my asking, how do you power the smoke unit with just the 400 e-unit?

@ChiTown Steve posted:

If you don’t mind my asking, how do you power the smoke unit with just the 400 e-unit?

Its actually a puffing smoke unit that takes straight track power. The way this one was wired: smoke unit and all lights are tied into the back roller pickup and ground. I installed the e unit in the engine. Originally there was a tether plug in the engine that had power from front pickup and motor leads connected to it that connected to tender where the original encyclopedia sized e unit was. I just disconnected the leads from that and wired them directly to e unit and wired a chassis ground. I Should've taken pics. This loco is a  conventional model. No tmcc.

@Donnie Kennedy That answers my question perfectly. Thanks for the help!!

My latest finds.

It may not be cool, but I bought this computer work station that I’ll use as a well needed building and maintenance bench. With the light I added today, it’s perfect.

Gene

@Genemed....

Your workstation became a model railroad maintenance bench the moment you added the foam cradle!

Ain't that the truth

@Genemed posted:

It may not be cool, but I bought this computer work station that I’ll use as a well needed building and maintenance bench. With the light I added today, it’s perfect.

Gene

Looks good to me, better than the Kitchen table, when Mama says get it put away

@Genemed posted:

It may not be cool, but I bought this computer work station that I’ll use as a well needed building and maintenance bench. With the light I added today, it’s perfect.

Gene

Looks great Gene. I would recommend a better chair, and a place for your adult beverage of choice.

OK- so does anyone else notice how neatly organized the Woodland Scenics bottles are........

A sure sign of a sick mind........

Bob

@Guttersnipe posted:

Looks good to me, better than the Kitchen table, when Mama says get it put away

In the past, I built all of my wood kits on the kitchen island. This is much easier without having to go up and down the stairs for something.

Gene

@RSJB18 posted:

Looks great Gene. I would recommend a better chair, and a place for your adult beverage of choice.

OK- so does anyone else notice how neatly organized the Woodland Scenics bottles are........

A sure sign of a sick mind........

Bob

Thanks Bob, the chair is in the immediate works. I told her today that uncomfortable chair wouldn’t cut it.

As for the bottles, it’s OCD to the max! That’s why when I make a scene on the layout it’s too perfect to be realistic, but it works for me. Parking areas and walkways are neatly edged.

Gene

@RSJB18 posted:

Looks great Gene. I would recommend a better chair, and a place for your adult beverage of choice.

OK- so does anyone else notice how neatly organized the Woodland Scenics bottles are........

A sure sign of a sick mind........

Bob

Give it time.....it'll have that multi-active project "worked in" look soon enough.

@Genemed posted:

Thanks Bob, the chair is in the immediate works. I told her today that uncomfortable chair wouldn’t cut it.

As for the bottles, it’s OCD to the max! That’s why when I make a scene on the layout it’s too perfect to be realistic, but it works for me. Parking areas and walkways are neatly edged.

Gene

I do my own landscaping. Don't ask me how I agonize over the edging and shrub trimming.

@Genemed posted:

In the past, I built all of my wood kits on the kitchen island. This is much easier without having to go up and down the stairs for something.

Gene

Yeah! me too. But after forty years, for me ,  now it's better for the walk then for the argument

@RSJB18 posted:

Looks great Gene. I would recommend a better chair, and a place for your adult beverage of choice.

OK- so does anyone else notice how neatly organized the Woodland Scenics bottles are........

A sure sign of a sick mind........

Bob

The  whole place,  is soo neat and tidy

It’s always fun to come home after a few days trip & find a train on your porch !   This MTH CNJ 4-8-2 (#30-1492-1) runs smoothly & the prior owner even put a BCR2 in it.  I doubt the CNJ had $$ for white striping so this engine will be due for some appropriate weathering.

Rich

@trestleking posted:

It’s always fun to come home after a few days trip & find a train on your porch !   This MTH CNJ 4-8-2 (#30-1492-1) runs smoothly & the prior owner even put a BCR2 in it.  I doubt the CNJ had $$ for white striping so this engine will be due for some appropriate weathering.

Rich

Aaaa Shreik It's too pretty to weather

@colorado hirailer posted:

RailRide:  that was a very interesting "lesson" in European passenger cars.

And the bulk of that I learned in 2-3 hours of research

There are a few British Mark 1 coaches still in the US, and at least two of them ran in shortline excursion service during the 1970's. They're currently displayed at a visitor's center in Standish, MI. The 0-6-0 steam locomotive that pulled them (also being from the UK) is displayed at a rail museum in LaGrange, KY (famous for the street-running CSX line running through its downtown).

There are a couple more Mk-1's in the National Railroad Museum in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, although substantially modified into staff/command cars for Dwight D. Eisenhower's train.

My interest in pursuing these cars is merely for the oddball sight of railcars from two distant continents operating side-by-side (even on established model RR clubs seen on youtube, this is rare as hen's teeth) with my typical US equipment. While I wouldn't be so ambitious as to re-create Flying Scotsman's tour of the US in the 1970's, I'll probably assemble my mini-collection into a consist of five UK coaches (currently eyeing three more Mark 1's on Ebay from a seller in Canada), and the five UIC coaches already shown.

I find now that the UIC coaches are 1:45 scale, as well as the UK ones. That would explain their 'chunky appearance next to 1/48 equipment. Also, AHM made short-shank (dummy) knuckle-coupler conversion kits for the AHM "hook" couplers (same as the ones on the Lima cars), so as soon as I secure the Mark-1's from Ebay, I'll be ordering enough to outfit all my Lima acquisitions.

---PCJ