Buy anything cool lately?

@coach joe posted:

Some new additions.  The Lionel 6812 Track Maintenance car is from the original train my brothers and I had as kids.  The men, top platform and crank are all replacement parts so I'm not worried about value.  I thought about making it a fire fighting car.  I've got the seat and monitor to replace the worker on the upper level, still need the seated fireman, and the spray arms to wet down the right of way once I fabricate brackets.  Such a mighty fire fighting tool would need a water supply;

so  here it is.  I figure some Walther's flanges, valves and piping on the pump and some of Pat's spring hoses to connect to the track maintenance car.

I have several of these Lionel spine car sets, NYC, Southern, SP.  When they first came out they catalogs said they were usually used as 5 car articulated units.  I thought I needed one more to give two 5 car units when I spied  this SeaLand set on eBay for a good price so I pulled the trigger.  Well it wasn't my 5th set it was my 4th so I guess I'll run them as one 5 car unit and one 3 car unit.  When running hotshot intermodal the different trailers will suffice but I believe I have enough NYC containers that I can run the 5 unit on the Water Level Route to Albany.

  Coach Joe, could you elaborate on
“Pat's spring hoses”?

@coach joe posted:

so  here it is.  I figure some Walther's flanges, valves and piping on the pump and some of Pat's spring hoses to connect to the track maintenance car.

Here's what I did with my track cleaner Joe. Parts are from Plastistruct.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...3#175850073710090703

I don't know if I did that correctly.  That's actually the link to one of my replies in that thread, just scroll to the top to see Pat's incredible handiwork.  Pat, @harmonyards, wrote that thread about using springs as water hoses between locomotives and tenders.  Here's one I added between an auxiliary tender and tender for a Y6b.  I wish I had a better pic but Pat has some good ones in his post.

@coach joe posted:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...3#175850073710090703

I don't know if I did that correctly.  That's actually the link to one of my replies in that thread, just scroll to the top to see Pat's incredible handiwork. Pat, @harmonyards, wrote that thread about using springs as water hoses between locomotives and tenders.  Here's one I added between an auxiliary tender and tender for a Y6b.  I wish I had a better pic but Pat has some good ones in his post.

@Coach Joe

Got it thanks.

This arrived today, wanted one for years and can’t wait to go through it and get it running. Not sure if it fits here or should be over in the land of tinplate. Thomas Industries Shawnee Express.

StudeDude,

What a beauty and great looking consist! Thanks for posting and have fun running it!

TRRR

I'm expanding my interest beyond RF&P and Long Island....picked up these MTH Premier ACL F3s and Railking 60' passenger cars a few weeks ago.  I really like the 60' cars...they seem to go well with the scale MTH locos.

Sunrise

@StudeDude posted:

This arrived today, wanted one for years and can’t wait to go through it and get it running. Not sure if it fits here or should be over in the land of tinplate. Thomas Industries Shawnee Express.

Keep us posted with your progress!

It fits where ever you want it.   and as many places as you can put it.  Nice catch

@Sunrise Special posted:

I'm expanding my interest beyond RF&P and Long Island....picked up these MTH Premier ACL F3s and Railking 60' passenger cars a few weeks ago.  I really like the 60' cars...they seem to go well with the scale MTH locos.

Sunrise

Always loved that Color combination

@StudeDude- Wow man, its been YEARS! since I saw one of those although I remember their advertising back in the day!  What a cool train, please keep us posted as you get it running.  Super find!

@Sunrise Special- beautiful cars and locomotives, what a great color scheme.  beautiful consist!

Don

These Nashville, Chattanooga and. St Louis Railway boxcars just arrived today. I was attracted to them because my Grandson Nick is in the music business in Nashville. He graduated as a sound engineer and is working as a sound engineer in Nashville; where he is following his dream of making music. https://youtube.com/playlist?l...;si=z5LknepLR87Rusp4
I bought both cars and I had picked up the flatcar with Martin guitars earlier; on the way to building a train for him. The boxcars are custom runs for Berwyns Toys and Trains

The Sun Records label on the box cars should really strike a note with him.

@pennsyfan posted:

These Nashville, Chattanooga and. St Louis Railway boxcars just arrived today. I was attracted to them because my Grandson Nick is in the music business in Nashville. He graduated as a sound engineer and is working as a sound engineer in Nashville; where he is following his dream of making music. https://youtube.com/playlist?l...;si=z5LknepLR87Rusp4
I bought both cars and I had picked up the flatcar with Martin guitars earlier; on the way to building a train for him. The boxcars are custom runs for Berwyns Toys and Trains

Great looking cars!

Just got this set.  Always wanted it

I just got this NIB Lionel 9510 Pennsylvania Combo Passenger/Baggage Car from the bay for a very nice price. It’ll be headed to the workshop soon for some upgrades as mentioned by @RSJB18 in this thread.

@texgeekboy posted:

I just got this NIB Lionel 9510 Pennsylvania Combo Passenger/Baggage Car from the bay for a very nice price. It’ll be headed to the workshop soon for some upgrades

Looks good. Can't wait to see your improvements.

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

Looks good. Can't wait to see your improvements.

Bob

I'll second that emulsion

Jersey Central SD70 with a semi-gloss paint job. Fresh out of the orange box. Looks great.

Well, whadaya know? I was missing my now hard-to-find Williams Santa Fe ALCO ABA Fs (although the Santa Fe never operated Alco Fs, only  Ps), only to run onto them for sale on eBay, and all NIB, never run! The Williams Santa Fe ALCO FB units are extremely scarce now. But I was able to spot one, along with a couple of FAs from a different seller. Both were Buy it Now, so I counter-offered at an even lower price and won both for a song!

Oh, the simplicity of Williams diesels! 4 screws pop off the shell, then 1 motor mount screw releases each motor. Amazingly enough, there was still fresh, wet grease in the worm gear. But I added a little more and greased the external gears, along with oiling the axles and pickup rollers. Then added engineer and fireman figures to the cab of the lead unit and good to go. I had to switch back to conventional. But what a treat to see it run again, only this time pulling more modern Lionel cars.

This was my old set pulling Williams aluminum SF cars taken in 2018. Then I sold this train after I switched to all command control and ended up missing it when it sold. It was an all Williams train back then.

Here's the new engine set pulling a longer string of Lionel aluminum Santa Fe cars (except for the MTH Santa Fe express reefer). A Lionel TMCC Santa Fe F7 ABA set, with the lead A and B behind it both powered, since it's a longer train are what usually pulls my Super Chief. But the 2-motored conventional FA pulled the whole train without a whimper, just like in the old days. In fact, I had to slow it down so it wouldn't come off at the curves! I love the efficiency of Williams's bullet proof, stump-puller diesels!

So, it's nice to have the good old Williams ALCO Fs back. 😀