Buy anything cool lately?

I'm kinda speechless on this one.. the Century Club Empire Express Hudson with some polished MTH passenger cars. My first engine with any kind of speed control. Wow, this baby will creep. The smoke output is great. I serviced her all up and that beautiful Pittman is running like clockwork. The MTH cars appealed to me with the old school silhouettes and lighting. Also appealed to the pocket book! Thanks again to the great bad influencer ( @Apples55)  on dealing with me! I'll post some videos in the future.

More cool buys today!

@Donnie Kennedy posted:

I'm kinda speechless on this one.. the Century Club Empire Express Hudson with some polished MTH passenger cars. My first engine with any kind of speed control. Wow, this baby will creep. The smoke output is great. I serviced her all up and that beautiful Pittman is running like clockwork. The MTH cars appealed to me with the old school silhouettes and lighting. Also appealed to the pocket book! Thanks again to the great bad influencer ( @Apples55)  on dealing with me! I'll post some videos in the future.

Happy to help, Donnie - just doing my part to drag another of you conventional types into the 21st Century (kicking and screaming if need be!!!). Just think of all the engine features you could access with a command control set up

Those polished cars are a nice match for the ESE.

@Apples55 posted:

Happy to help, Donnie - just doing my part to drag another of you conventional types into the 21st Century (kicking and screaming if need be!!!). Just think of all the engine features you could access with a command control set up

Those polished cars are a nice match for the ESE.

Haha. I'm looking into command... 😉. It does look like the former owner must've been playing chicken with another loco. Little scratch on the front. 😂. Luckily Lionel still sells the pilot cover. That got the worst of the impact. Just glad the airbags didn't go off.

Found some more wooden kit built refrigerator cars rolling on prewar Lionel trucks modified using postwar couplers. Also got lucky as one of the cars turned out to be a 2954 semi scale box car that needs to be un-repainted.

Picked these up at the Greenberg's show in Wilmington, MA this weekend ....... B&M bus by MTH; MTH Railking NH gondola with removable box loads; and an orange NH freight car (not sure who made it - came in a small white cardboard box with black printing, "NH - Orange - 26" - maybe Frank's Roundhouse ?).

The NH cars will go well with my NH consist.

I was reluctant to buy this set. Not knowing much about the Wabash i wasn’t sure it was a good fit. However after reading all the responses to the thread that I started regarding Heavyweights and F3s, https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...c/182044000691489336 I think I’m on somewhat of firm ground. I picked up this Wabash Fallen Flag passenger set to go with my Lionel Legacy Wabash F3 AA. The engine was a custom run for METCA. The livery follows the original artist’s rendering in the 50s catalog.

Looks to me that you did good.  If you don't like them you can send them to me

Beautiful train Bob ! Looks great !

A couple of new engines to add to my roster…

First up, a Lionel FA-2 AA pair I picked up from Gryzboski’s… I guess the late Joe Gryzboski was right - I am sort of a New York Central guy!!! Really have to stop looking at their website

Next, a Lionel special run Lionel NW2 done by the NJHR Club.

not just nice, very nice

@Guttersnipe posted:

Looks to me that you did good.  If you don't like them you can send them to me

😎

@taycotrains posted:

Beautiful train Bob ! Looks great !

Thanks Bob, they were some fine trains that you showed us last evening.

I caught this nice Lionel ERIE Pacific from M J Breen last week with low miles on it at a great price. Sounds (2 chuffs) and the Odyssey cruise are a little dated but the chuff, whistle, and bell are great and rich sounding. She will creep along and has the good construction of steamers from this period - 2001. This Erie model has the added feedwater heater which is very well detailed for 23 yrs ago Lionel.

Gal lee some of you boys is a gettin' lucky in your finds.  da dar is real pretty and the consist ain't bad neither. and the layout looks great too 

@Richie C. posted:

Picked these up at the Greenberg's show in Wilmington, MA this weekend ....... B&M bus by MTH; MTH Railking NH gondola with removable box loads; andan orange NH freight car (not sure who made it - came in a small white cardboard box with black printing, "NH - Orange - 26" - maybe Frank's Roundhouse ?).

For those interested, I confirmed that the # 35452 boxcar I bought is indeed a Frank's Roundhouse product - actually, they made two orange NH freight cars, both with catalogue #26. One version has a narrower "NH" logo and a different road number and door design, while the one I picked up has the wider "NH" logo, the 35452 road number, and the door design pictured.

@Apples55 posted:

A couple of new engines to add to my roster…

First up, a Lionel FA-2 AA pair I picked up from Gryzboski’s… I guess the late Joe Gryzboski was right - I am sort of a New York Central guy!!! Really have to stop looking at their website

Next, a Lionel special run Lionel NW2 done by the NJHR Club.

Looking great!  How can you resist a pair of handsome lightning bolt NYC engines?

Art

@c.sam posted:

I caught this nice Lionel ERIE Pacific from M J Breen last week with low miles on it at a great price. Sounds (2 chuffs) and the Odyssey cruise are a little dated but the chuff, whistle, and bell are great and rich sounding. She will creep along and has the good construction of steamers from this period - 2001. This Erie model has the added feedwater heater which is very well detailed for 23 yrs ago Lionel.

Beautiful engine!  Nice find.

Art

@pennsyfan posted:

I was reluctant to buy this set. Not knowing much about the Wabash i wasn’t sure it was a good fit. However after reading all the responses to the thread that I started regarding Heavyweights and F3s, https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...c/182044000691489336 I think I’m on somewhat of firm ground. I picked up this Wabash Fallen Flag passenger set to go with my Lionel Legacy Wabash F3 AA. The engine was a custom run for METCA. The livery follows the original artist’s rendering in the 50s catalog.

Great addition!  Makes a beautiful train.

Art

It was our pleasure yesterday to host Mr, Stu Gralnik of Model Building Services and his wife Ann when they delivered my new factory for installation  on the New Haven section of my layout. The factory is scratch built from some different building sections Stu had to my specifications  to fit a specific area. There is quite a bit of nice detailing including a custom entrance on one end and a fire escape on the other. There is custom lighting for each floor plus exterior lights. Sitting to the right of the factory on the table is another building Stu made for me. That is a machinery building kit from Crow River Products. Inside are two Crow River HRT coal burning steam boilers which will [provide steam to the factory. Stu modified and assembled the building and I built and installed the boilers. There is also lighting in the boiler house and since I was in the steam boiler business, it does look like the real thing in miniature when looking at it through the open door.    Installed pictures to follow.