Buy anything cool lately?

Guns,

   Great pick up for the money, I was leery of the sale also, I figured you would make an offer on it.

PCRR/Dave

Thanks guys happy with my purchase.

decoynh posted:

John,  very nice indeed!  How does it track through switches, esp. back to back switches?  All my 0-4-0, 0-6-0 & 0-8-0 Shifters work great on switches.  I contemplated converting a decopod to an 0-10-0 b4 trading it off. 

I had no issues with switches, I backed through a few on Atlas and Fastrack, neither gave it any trouble. All the switches I tried were O72 or larger, don't know how well it would handle it's minimum of O54.

Nice purchase!  I tried to buy another legacy engine that the same gentleman listed for sale just after this one ... but never heard back from him.

Notch 6 posted:

Picked up two of these yesterday along with a full few size bells and a Nathan Airchime K3HA horn all from retired Union Pacific B40-8 locos. I'll clean it all up and then start working to find new homes for everything. 

 

 

you should take that control stand and wire it to your layout and control your trains with it

Roman posted:

Waiting for this little gem to arrive. Putting together set 1503W. With this I now have all the cars, just need the important loco & tender.

 

 

Roman posted:

Hmm, I guess I'm not too cool. I touted just above about the little "gem" I'm waiting on. Well what do I find buried at the bottom of a bin under my layout tonight????

Can't have too many cabeese/cabooses, right? 

I'm not savvy enough on PW to know the specific differences of a 6257 vs. 6357 without trying to look it up, but since they have different numbers, I think it's OK!

-Dave

The Doyle book I have shows mfg dates of 48-52 for the 6257.  If it is dark tile red with a dark tile red chimney, this book shows a price of $200-650 for VC-LN but only $2-8 for the red, tile red, or red-orange.  

The 6357 shows production on and off from 60-69 with prices from $40-175 depending on version and condition.

Greenberg's book shows different info and reverses the high value between 257 and 357.  So as far as value, it's a toss up i guess.

I picked up a ZW-C yesterday at I Love Toy Trains-The Country Store for a insanely low price.

Picked up 4 older(1999-02) CTT magazines. Lots of good reading. 

Just picked-up five of these beauties...

I just purchased a Lionel Legacy 6-11280 #4507 Steam Baltimore & Ohio. I couldn't be happier l'm new to the hobby and thought I wouldn't be able to get one of these great engins.

Some Weathering supplys

Jon, you've got a 5 stall roundhouse for one loco.

Matt Makens posted:

Jon, you've got a 5 stall roundhouse for one loco.

I see them as an enablers for more locos

Past Sunday went to train show in Springfield Ohio. Nice show. I found another Marx light tower and a farm tractor to finish our my load for the flat car. Pic...................Paul

I got my 86' hi-door boxcars last week and still have not had time to open them yet. 

I also got this Weaver City of Altoona Fire Department Tank Car off the ebay over the weekend. Since, I'm a firefighter I had to have it and got it for a pretty good price. The mean reason I purchased it was I thought it would go good with my SD60E first responder diesel that should arrive this summer. 

Chris 

made an offer on this and won it.

Today I picked up this Chein litho cathedral from the 1920s-1930s on the EvilBay. In very good condition. Will be using it for my wedding cake table Std. Gauge diorama. When you crank the handle over and over it sounds like a hymn being played on an pipe organ. Cool.

Steamer posted:

made an offer on this and won it.

I went to a train show Sunday and picked up a book on ghost towns.  This one has color photos of current ones with surviving structures.   I am hoping I will get a scratch build structure out of it, not to mention trip ideas on maybe discovering something not in the book.

I just received these two GG1s I bought on line.

The black one may not be prototypical (I think the prototype was brunswick green, which looked black in some light, with gold stripes.) but I think it is striking and I love it. 4829 was the only GG1 to get that type of stripping. I bought the green 5 stripe because I don't have a green 5 stripe and the price was right. Here is a picture of my 4 scale MTH GG1s (I also have a scale Williams GG1)