Buy anything cool lately?

Your bride did an excellent job cleaning your purchase  Bill.

That is one sharp billboard reefer sir.

@Odenville Bill posted:

Sam,  That is a sharp Mikado.

I was trolling around on Trainz last week and my wife saw me admiring a Prince Albert reefer.  This past Monday it arrived.  It was very dirty, I mean filthy.  I disassembled the car and my bride cleaned it up.  So here is my first billboard reefer.  I'm going to let her see me looking at more reefers.

Bill

Sir, I dare say a double congratulations are in order

York purchases - cars.

Locomotives purchased at York.  The 0-6-0 is a rare Revell HO engine.

The parts were bought and the car was assembled.  Marx never made a Rock Island auto loader.  But the auto loader frame fits any flat car that's the same length. . .so Rock Island work caboose - work caboose body + auto loader = Rock Island auto loader.

That i one of the very best parts of being a model railroader, making things work that didn't before, congratulations

@Apples55 posted:

These purchases ARE NOT my fault… I blame @MELGAR for posting pictures of one of these cars on several occasions of late. With my known proclivity for things NYC, it didn’t take long for the voices to take over (and I know that they are MY voices since they speak fluent Brooklynese):

Me: that is an interesting and different NYC boxcar.

Voice #1: you really need one a deeze K-Line cars…

Voice #2: Yo!!! Lookee here - you really need one a dem MTH cars…

Voice #3: ya know… a pair a doze would look really great wit dat set of jade green E8’s…

Voice #4 (after browsing the OGR Forum): wow… Lionel made one too!!!

Me: I think it’s time for a couple of adult beverages

Does are definitely your voices.  I think you may have already had an adult beverage or two.

@c.sam posted:

Snagged this handsome Mikado on 'the bay' last week. First PS3 MTH steamer.  Impressive.

That green and gold is always impressive.

Found the demonstration sample of the Raleigh, NC Boylan tower for sale at a recent show.

I have the kit, but this saved a lot of work, and I'm sure is a better job than I could have done.  If you look real close in the second window, you can see the interlocking levers.

Well folks, I could not find a specific place to post these since "gondolas" seem to be somewhat forgotten.  I like them mostly for their varied livery which given their straight length, is usually well displayed.  So I acquired these 2 recently.

The first is an "oldie", Tuscan brown with type G trucks, the Marx Canadian Pacific drop end gondola is from 1957.  Saved from a box under the table at a train show for $10 it was too good a buy to pass up.  IMHO in great shape for 67 years old.

At the opposite end of the age scale, this Lionel (MPC), Lionel Lines, gondola is from 1984 (but was uncatalogued).  I purchased it really just because I liked the livery with the orange / dark blue design and the prominent Lionel logo.  I also liked that it came with blue canisters, which I had not seen before, and I thought they looked cool.

Well those are my most recent "finds"...Best Wishes

Don

@coach joe posted:

Does are definitely your voices.  I think you may have already had an adult beverage or two.

I resemble that remark, Joe. Sláinte!!!

Very nice Don,  The CP is in great shape.  I like that Lionel livery.  Every now and then I start searching a variety of cars in the orange and blue but never pull the trigger because I've got no room for them.

"Proste!" Paul.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well folks, I could not find a specific place to post these since "gondolas" seem to be somewhat forgotten.  I like them mostly for their varied livery which given their straight length, is usually well displayed.  So I acquired these 2 recently.

The first is an "oldie", Tuscan brown with type G trucks, the Marx Canadian Pacific drop end gondola is from 1957.  Saved from a box under the table at a train show for $10 it was too good a buy to pass up.  IMHO in great shape for 67 years old.

At the opposite end of the age scale, this Lionel (MPC), Lionel Lines, gondola is from 1984 (but was uncatalogued).  I purchased it really just because I liked the livery with the orange / dark blue design and the prominent Lionel logo.  I also liked that it came with blue canisters, which I had not seen before, and I thought they looked cool.

Well those are my most recent "finds"...Best Wishes

Don

Ahh the humble gondola.....

Nice cars Don.

Power company took the grid down for my neighborhood for some maintenece today, so I decided to drop by my local train store to just browse... I ended up walking out of there with 2 Atlas O freight cars that will go perfectly with my steam engines, one of which I was on the hunt for a number of years.. A... I cannot say the name of it or I might get banned 11,000 gallon tank car. The other car was this nice Union Pacific steel box car.

particularly like the Tank car

@coach joe & @RSJB18 -  Thank you both for the compliments.

Best Wishes

Don

I bought this great looking Lionel scale B&O Hudson from Vince's Trains at the recent York show.  

Earlier during York week on Tuesday my MTH B&O Fairbanks - Morse H-10-44 arrived from Mr. Muffin's Trains.   I love the sound of this locomotive.

@MichaelB posted:

Power company took the grid down for my neighborhood for some maintenece today, so I decided to drop by my local train store to just browse... I ended up walking out of there with 2 Atlas O freight cars that will go perfectly with my steam engines, one of which I was on the hunt for a number of years.. A... I cannot say the name of it or I might get banned 11,000 gallon tank car. The other car was this nice Union Pacific steel box car.

Nice tank car, I haven’t seen those graphics before. I bought a tank car with that name on line. The seller lived a town over from my son. He said he would drop it off. The next day I got this text from him. “ I just dropped the Hooker off at your Son’s house”. 😱

Fantastic engines, Patrick W/Trumptrain -- especially that Hudson.  And, as always they look great on your amazingly detailed layout. Thanks for posting.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

@pennsyfan posted:

Nice tank car, I haven’t seen those graphics before. I bought a tank car with that name on line. The seller lived a town over from my son. He said he would drop it off. The next day I got this text from him. “ I just dropped the Hooker off at your Son’s house”. 😱