Buy anything cool lately?

Picked up a Standard Gauge # 10 loco Sunday at a Montvale NJ train show.

The seller stated that it was restored (for my level it is not so good), It is repainted in a Peacock color (roughly done), loco was re-wheeled and the switch and collector are good. There was no test track and the seller stated that it did run. So I negotiated a good price and purchased the loco.
When I got home hooked up a transformer with test leads and the head lights worked and the motor tried to move. I sprayed contact cleaner in the brush area and got it running in both directions. Sprayed some electrical spray lube now it runs better (needs a complete cleaning and new brushes).
The headlights were loose, tried to tighten them but the screws that hold the lights to the shell screws are to long and hits the bulb and locks the bulb in place. The tabs that hold the brass on are all there, plus when the person assembled the loco they just put a little twist on the tabs instead of bending them over.  The wiring does not look professional at all. Plus when the fellow did the repaint, the roof was left with a small dent and the front and back widows under the roof overhang are bent (did not see this when I purchased the loco).
Anyway it is all there and runs. So with this it will be my next clean and rebuild project since it was repainted.
I still think I got a good deal and glad that I bought it.

Got these in the mail yesterday from a fellow OGR member.  Another happy purchase.  Thanks, my friend!

At a train show last year I picked up a Lionel 7 car aluminum Superliner set really cheap but didn't have a good Amtrak engine to pull them, that is until now.  This is a heavy 7 car passenger consist that's difficult to pull for one smaller engine so I was concerned the light F40PH might have a problem. Not to worry as this beauty was up for the job.   Footnote: MTH has really improved on sound quality and the price is far less expensive then the other guy......  As it turns out, this is a really cool set.. I'm sold!!!!!

Joe

Another short video with 2  F40PH's 

Nice Set up there Joe. I have the same engine and cant wait to run it!

JC642 posted:

At a train show last year I picked up a Lionel 7 car aluminum Superliner set really cheap but didn't have a good Amtrak engine to pull them, that is until now.  This is a heavy 7 car passenger consist that's difficult to pull for one smaller engine so I was concerned the light F40PH might have a problem. Not to worry as this beauty was up for the job.   Footnote: MTH has really improved on sound quality and the price is far less expensive then the other guy......  As it turns out, this is a really cool set.. I'm sold!!!!!

Joe

Another short video with 2  F40PH's 

Joe I'm Jealous.  When the Amtrak Downeaster goes by here,there is an engine on each end of the consist, so that they don't have to  move the engine from one end to the other.  That's a beautiful set.  Best of luck.

Staying on the F40PH subject this is my new MTH MBTA engine that pulled into the station Saturday! 

Nice Engine Chris, and Great looking Station!

Thanks Mike!

Matt,

    Purchased a real nice NASA Switcher just lately and it finally arrived by US mail today, after I had to chase it down, the US Mail is definitely not what it use to be, Old Ben would be upset for sure.  However thanks to Charlie Powell I now have the Blue & White P3 #3 NASA Switcher that I wanted to add to my NASA Train.  Real nice looking Engine, decently detailed, and this P3 Switcher seems to be little larger than my Red & White NASA P2 #1 Engine, when I finally find my #1 NASA Engine, where ever I stored it, I will do a closer comparison, with them side by side. Marty F has advised me that the P2 & P3 NASA Switcher Engines will play nice together, on my Christmas layout.  I do not have a layout set up right now, is there anybody in the Pittsburgh/Monroeville area that has a DCS layout set up right now, for me to test my new engine on.  If so please let me know.

PCRR/Dave

Last week, I received this Golden Gate Depot model of a Railway Post Office car built for Santa Fe by ACF in 1947.

A Menards Chippewa Valley Farm Supply building and a CVFS pickup truck.

That farm supply is cool!   One I will probably get soon!   Looks great on your layout!

Jim

Had this on order for awhile and it arrived about a week ago

Nick

Nick,

I love the detail on Atlas O Steam Era Classics!  I also really like old billboard reefers!  The two make a winning combination!!  If you bring it to the next Greenberg Show, I'll tell everyone how great it is!  ;-)

Tom, thats a nice car. I have the same one.

G stuff for my spring (train in the yard) project.

I picked up more LGB stuff this past weekend at a train show in Fletcher NC (Asheville) . For one big thing a new complete R-5 circle....good score on that one. 

I hope to stumble over the few more track items I need to finish the outer loop at York. You never know, did real good last time finding a few G track items.

Larry

Mark Boyce posted:

Nick,

I love the detail on Atlas O Steam Era Classics!  I also really like old billboard reefers!  The two make a winning combination!!  If you bring it to the next Greenberg Show, I'll tell everyone how great it is!  ;-)

Mark,

I enjoy the billboard reefers also-have a ton of Atlas,  K-Line , & MTH.   It's REAL easy to snap off the steps and brake wheel/post on the Atlas ones(ask me how I know!).   Might run a reefer block behind my Vision Challenger at Greenberg this July as I haven't stretched it's legs in a while.  Our club members try to co-ordinate with each other so there are different types of trains operating at our various shows.   I'v been following your layout design thread.

Nick

I had some rare free time the other day, so I decided to put grab irons on my diesel.

I need to paint the grab irons still, I cant decide whether to remove them to paint them, or paint them in place. The lazy modeler in me wants to paint in place.

I got this poster yesterday in the mail from the Avery County Museum in NC. It dropped right into the Wal-Mart frame I bought this morning with no problem, can't wait to hang it in the layout room! 

Tom M posted:

I had some rare free time the other day, so I decided to put grab irons on my diesel.

I need to paint the grab irons still, I cant decide whether to remove them to paint them, or paint them in place. The lazy modeler in me wants to paint in place.

They look great. "The lazy modeler" in me says leave them as is!  Nice job.

machinist posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Nick,

I love the detail on Atlas O Steam Era Classics!  I also really like old billboard reefers!  The two make a winning combination!!  If you bring it to the next Greenberg Show, I'll tell everyone how great it is!  ;-)

Mark,

I enjoy the billboard reefers also-have a ton of Atlas,  K-Line , & MTH.   It's REAL easy to snap off the steps and brake wheel/post on the Atlas ones(ask me how I know!).   Might run a reefer block behind my Vision Challenger at Greenberg this July as I haven't stretched it's legs in a while.  Our club members try to co-ordinate with each other so there are different types of trains operating at our various shows.   I'v been following your layout design thread.

Nick

Nick,

Yes you have to be careful with the detail.  I have one part that I found trackside, that I don't know what it is or which car it fell off.  I'm just holding it to see if I eventually notice where it belongs.  

Yes, I can see that the club members need to coordinate who is bringing what to each show.

 Thank you for following my topic.  I will be transitioning from plan to a build topic soon.  I have been collecting some material for room improvement, so I haven't had much to report the last week.

#TOM M    gads, I WISH I would have thought of that. I LIKE it!! Watching White Pass Videos lately... OMG!!   and thanks to you, who knew.....

Just opened my package from yesterday. Four new additions for the layout. Three Weaver and one specially done wood chip car. Still have to change the Weaver over to three rails wheels and couplers. Pics.........Paul

A week or two ago posted a pic of my start on a NCTM caboose train.

This week got the last two key pieces.

Here is a couple of pics of the museum's been looking for.

None of the mass-produces of O make a N&W C32P cab to my knowledge.  But Atlas did make their C31 in Red with "NW" marking.

There are four more obvious differences between the C31 vs. C32P.

Picked this up from a dealer in AL based on internet search.

One difference is no end platform ladders.  A close exam of the model revealed that the ladders were only a friction fit.  So popped them off.

The SCL cab MTH made 10 or so years ago that was going to be a "search."  The other day one of the guys at local train store asked if I was looking for anything.  One of my last remaining O-Gauge contemporaries passed last Summer and he and this fellows friend were liquidating his collection for the widow.  Told him the only thing was a MTH ACl cab 20-91082.  Walked in the shop earlier today he said wait a minute coming back with it.  So it is special because was looking for a hard item to find and it was Jerry's.

A good day and week, I really needed that right now all things considered!

p51 posted:

I got this poster yesterday in the mail from the Avery County Museum in NC. It dropped right into the Wal-Mart frame I bought this morning with no problem, can't wait to hang it in the layout room! 

There's nothing better than a little Kodaking after some basket picnicking, I always say.

Nicholas Smith Trains in Broomall, NJ has a terrific sale price on Flyonel Legacy powered ES44AC diesels right now, so I pulled the trigger on a Central of Georgia model this past Tuesday morning. It was on my doorstep in the Jacksonville, Florida area on Thursday morning with no shipping damage courtesy of FedEx Ground. Hope you enjoy the shots.

Beautiful,addition for my O scale Fairbanks Morse collection ...Rivarrosi/AHM C-Liner ...

She's 2 rail , so , either I need a 2 rail loop of track , or , I have a siding display piece ...

Not new Postwar lionel 2035 the 1950 version with its original tattered box that was the sellers dad's .

The shell and motor looked hardly used.

Bought another 1950 version 2035 shell paint poor but casting undamaged that i will restore the shell on it.

For those not familiar the 1950 model had the large round magnet and the half moon eccentric crank and the pick up rollers were the SLS type roller on a fixed axle.

The 1951 model had the square magnet and the 2 pin eccentric crank and rollers that spun on a pin affixed to the roller bracket.

D&H 65.....Wow, very good pictures and that's a nice ES44...I really like that paint scheme.  Enjoy. 

Dprasse...That's a nice Pennsy Locomotive...Thanks for posting...Enjoy..

Wow, Beauuuutiful beasts, beautiful..... ty

Picked up this yesterday at Menards...........Pics...............Paul

So my brother calls me this morning and says some store he is at has Lionel trains on sale.   HMMM so I run over there and got these babies brand new !! 210.00 for both of them!   90.00 for the PA set and 120.00 for the John Deer set.   Just couldn't pass them up for those prices!   

Jim : )

I purchased a 350 Transfer Table for $99.00 incl. shipping, that needed some help.  It didn't take much to get it working.  Just waiting on some small parts from The Train Tender to complete the task.

Nice find Paul and Dan! Pays to be in the right place at the right time!

Dan,

Pardon my ignorance, but what does a Lionel Transfer Table transfer/do?  I've been staring at your picture but I can't grasp it.

TRRR

Tom, the transfer table is used in diesel maintanance facilities to park the locomotives on different parrallel tracks that lead into the maintainance building.  Transfer tables took the place of turntables when dieselization came to the railroads.  I did a Google search and this is what came up.

Ah, that's a great picture that you found, Dan.  It really shows how the parallel track works. Thanks for taking the time to locate and post it -- and so quickly, too!

TRRR

Dan Padova posted:

I purchased a 350 Transfer Table for $99.00 incl. shipping, that needed some help.  It didn't take much to get it working.  Just waiting on some small parts from The Train Tender to complete the task.

 

Great find, Dan.I hope you can locate some extensions too.  It's a great way to store engines in a relatively small area.  The round house is an attractive accessory but requires a lot of space due to the angled tracks coming off a circle.  This would be a popular reissue for our friends at Lionel.  I've also seen third party transfer tables, but they were pricy.  Ross Custom Switches has 3 sizes with 5 or 10 tracks for $850-$1300!  You did good indeed.

Transfer tables are nice, they don't take up as much room as a roundhouse  and turntable.  The B&LE in Greenville, Pa. had a big one.

TRRR- the Diner Guru !  I just read that an empty diner in Pgh's Station Square is moving to a theater in Irwin, Pa. to be put in use.