Buy anything cool lately?

 Very Fun little sets. Bobbers are so cool. Remember to add some weight to the loco and it'll pull extremely well for its size. Out pulls my 4-4-0 PullMor General easy. A few Water Gremlins(sinkers) and this cab forward mod. w/corgi yard plow is pulling a mostly PW die cast work train right now. E&B crane, fish-belly & 2 wire rolls(of solder), a short supply flat (plastic but w/load- brass,steel,&copper bushings/pipe/tacknail-spikes etc., a DL&W 2419work caboose, and a lighted SP caboose. Takes a cast Atlantic to out pull it .

Picked up this 1956 Lionel 2259W set at a estate sale last weekend. The set was very dirty and is

missing parts. Working on cleaning it up and searching for parts.

franktrain

Most recent purchases include a couple items I've wanted for quite a while, all lionel, all off ebay:

Postwar 282R magnetic gantry crane, came already serviced and rewired with extra long wire split with couplers in the middle.  Works great, and great price at  $90.

Postwar 2531 Silver Dawn observation, needs about $10 in parts, but I paid $20 including shipping, so a steal for me!  Now all I need is the Silver Bluff and i'll have a complete set!

And just for fun, the Harry Potter Hogwarts Express set.  I had read horrible reviews about this set, but I got it for $60 in the box.  When I got it, I was impressed with the weight and details of the engine.  The fasttrack is as noisy as everyone says it is, but at least now I have something to run on the floor of my apartment while all my other trains are back in my parents' basement.

My father had one of those -- a 1960, complete with the wire wheels. Supposedly, the coupe was somewhat rare. The car was very nice to drive and handled well. He liked it so much he bought my mother a convertible and painted it the same color.

Lee and AMCDave....well I remember this attracive blonde on campus who showed up

driving a yellow MG A coupe.  Later I talked an old girlfriend out of getting a new MG B

roadster, and into a more sensible 1978 Camaro six cylinder coupe, due to the "Prince of Darkness" electronics.  Ratpak:  I just traded my irreplaceable 5 speed manual Aerostar van, which only got 23 MPG, on a 2015 Subaru six speed manual Forester, which got consistently 30.9 MPG driving all over the Rocky Mountain west last month.

(I never could get it to exceed 30.9...could not get it to turn over into 31 even once)

parts available from Jeff Kane @ ttender.com

Obtained these beautiful Sharks from a forum member last week and am enjoying them immensely on my bench test track.

That certainly is a beautiful model Lee.  I had a couple of MGA's back in college and almost bought a coupe once. I passed due to the awfully hot weather in New Orleans as the ventilation was poor in the coupes. I did have a factory(?) hardtop for several years that looked just like this when mounted but gave me the option of running as a convertible most of the time.

A section of my layout will have an Amish farm scene.  I just bought 4 o scale buggy kits to complete the scene.  Now I need to find 4 harnessed horses.

Nick, where did you get them? As since I was born and raised in Lancaster County, there has to be a spot I can get them on my layout!

This was a result of the recent York Meet.

now that is a great find!

You can get beautiful horses, correctly harnessed and scaled, for those carriages from my source, if you wish:

Baker's Railroad Shop

Roy Baker, 845-887-4596

He knows me as Frank, of Layout Refienments

A Beaufighter is one I never did find when I was mass producing WWll models. My trainboard has a steel(actually aluminum) umbrella consisting of my teenage planes. Still need to find a few and pick up a few replacements for ones lost over the years.

It is the Revell 1974 issue.Even has a full panel ad for the Revell Master Modelers Club.I was a member and vividly remember the Get It Together pamphlet that used to come!

I used to be heavily into model airplanes.  Loved it, still miss building them.  Just don't have the time anymore to dedicate to it.

My dad still does, at last count he had over 6,000 different kits!

that is a lot of kits!

AH - HA ,  10 YRS LATER AND THEY STILL DID NOT MILDEW!!!!!!!!!!

DUMMY ON TOP OF THE POWERED STILL IN THE BOX,  

ALASKA  R R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   OH  MORE TO COME STILL IN THE BOXES!!

Really cool F units, Terry. Now start looking for the powered B and dummy B units. 

Nice pieces. Price?

Matchbox 1/32 Spitfire mark 22!

Williams by Bachmann NYC F-3 ABA set and Lionel Legacy Milwaukee GP-35. The GP-35 is my third Legacy engine; I also have the Milwaukee S-3 4-8-4 No.267 and the Milwaukee F-7 AA set with add-on B unit. In the past I haven't been real big on the high-end electronics, but I like Legacy so much I bought a system for my home layout when I get it back in operation.

I love the Spitfire! My Metis (half-breed Canadian native) father flew 3 types of Spitfires in WW2; flew 239 missions! His middle handle was - no kidding - "Lucky" for an obvious reason. Unfortunately, like so many vets, he came back to an ordinary small city that had remained pretty much the same, while he had been changed by the war. Alcohol was his savior in the war, and his undoing in later life, but the fact that I'm even here to be able to love my trains is due to his efforts. 

As for new stuff, thanks to GG1guy (a site contributor), I was able to get his brand-new LCCA Collector's Club Texas Special beautiful NW-2 Cow and Calf. They are beauties, and even tho' I run conventional, lotsa great sounds and a deep-blast horn freaks my dog and brings a glow to my heart. Pix attached...

I noticed this set of Weaver Wabash 20" cars on Ebay a couple of weeks ago and put in an opening bid of $150 about 3 hours before the auction ended.  When I got home I checked my E-mail to find out I won.  I received them in three days to find out they are brand new and never ran.  Now I am looking to find another set and or more single cars to make a longer consist and either a set of used MTH Premier Alco PA's or a new Lionel Legacy AA set of E8's.  

Keith, you need to talk to Santa Clause about that Legacy System. 

If I could only win my ebay auctions...

MTH/Ives, with Proto 2 of course.

Scott Smith

A friend bought a '69 Camaro shortly after we graduated from high school.  It was a really cool car!!

Yesterday, I purchased the Polar Express Dining Car at the Greenberg show in Monroeville.  Maybe it isn't so cool because all they serve on that car is HOT chocolate. 

keys6700 sorry but you didn't get a 69 camaro.... it looks like a 68 as that was the first years without vent windows on the camaro. easiest way to tell on 1st generation camaros 67 had vent windows no side markers, 68 no vent windows and side markers. 69 had different shaped fender wells different taillights and parking lights below the bumper. i own 1 67 1 68 7 69's.

I have the traditional.  Did you see the Polar Express the Pittsburgh Independent HiRailers were running?  The scale one, way cooler than mine, but I'm happy.

Yes I did see Santa on the observation deck.  That was a neat addition.  I have the observation, regular coach, the marionette car from the set, and the hobo car and now the diner.  I also picked up the Polar Express girder bridge, plus the set of the conductor, engineer, fireman, and the boy.  My daughter is going to get me some red doll hair so I can make a beard for the fireman.  I don't know why he is clean shaven.

Got these two old Marx steamers yesterday....

Well, this NYC T-3 by Third Rail has joined my collection, courtesy of the Public Delivery Track at Allentown

Didn't even plan on getting any motive power---Just a case of coming loaded for bear, and only having bought a few small things the entire show. People were covering their tables up when I pulled the trigger on this one. 

I think I'll hitch it to my K-Line Metro-North Bombadier cars and call it a "miraculous preservation"

---PCJ

Love that Alaska RR paint scheme!

I purchased an MTH Premier 5-car Twin Stack Container Set (MTH 20-90842 Norfolk Southern w/ Dole Fruit Containters) from my LHS. 

The cars are extremely well detailed and look amazing coming down the mainline. 

Link to a quick video I posted on my youtube channel below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w08X3M-3x1c

For any intermodal fans out there, I would highly recommend purchasing one of these sets.  You will not be disappointed. 

Best,

Michael

Lionel Vision Challenger 4-6-6-4  I purchased and waiting for delivery (today I hope).

Lionel Lantern for the mantel.

I finally broke down and ordered the MTH Premier S-1.  I only bought at a 10% discount but . . . I thought about it -- it is much too big to look good on 72 inch curves (which I have, or bigger, so I can run it but mostly won't).  I want it mostly to go along with all the other big boys (and Big Boy) on the shelf, where I can look at and compre them all . . . It will be here Friday. 

Lionel Snow Globe

Amish buggy & horse

I know I am late to the show.  Well I just got this the other day.  Its my 1st  car/truck for my layout.

I just ordered the Lionel Polar Railroad GP-7 and the PRR covered hopper. The GP will be perfect in front of my hot chocolate car, reindeer stock car, and present hopper.

I'm pretty excited - this is my first Legacy product. I've been focusing on DCS up until now, but the this GP-7 is just needs to be on my Christmas display. I'll probably just run it in conventional mode for now.

Fred

Never too late, it is a never ending thread!!

along your lines, and i sure like that model, i still have models hanging from ceiling in my office

i built this using 1.50 worth of balsa and basswood from Hobby Lobby

a south easter us tobacco barn

Hey Spence...

Cool looking Amish Buggy ya got there.

Paul

How does it work?

I just got the mail and Jeff from JD's trains/ AM Hobbies. Sent me the 35 ATLAS Deluxe switch control boxes  Item #57. That I put on order       5/20/14    So you can see atlas has shipping problems to.         

Yup, one of these. Sure is a beauty.

 NIB 21" K Line passenger cars.

Towed this abandoned truck home.  Not sure what make though.  Ford?  International?

It's about as close to O gauge as a 45N.

Along with the serial plate they also stole the drive train.

Bruce

I pre-orded this box car this past Spring and received it this week.  RailKing NS Boxcar with Blinking LEDs

Ken

Very nice car Ken!!

Christmas came early for me lol. Finally gonna try and roll with the big kids! 

update and now ready to go on rail line, on farm

Gentlemen,

   Other than my new 990 Legacy finally coming the last thing I purchased was a Tin Plate Train form one of the forum members, almost a year ago now, which I posted a picture of once before

PCRR/Dave

Now this is what I call a passenger cars!!!!!

A fellow C&O modeler decided to get out of the hobby and was selling his O gauge stuff. He had a couple of unique structures scratch built by NMRA Master Modeller Don Eastman which he offered to me and which I quickly snatched up.

First is a model of the streamlined coal dock the C&O built specifically for their steam-turbine-electric locos.

The real thing:

Second structure is the C&O station from Nuttall, WVA with the unusual octagonal roof tower:

I feel real fortunate to get these.

Ken

Bought this off ebay for my circus train. Don't know the builder, but whoever it was did a remarkable job. All the doors/hatches open and it has the boiling kettles inside.

Dave,

 Contact the C&O Historical Society in Clifton Forge and see if you can get a copy of the Feb, 2008 C&OHS Magazine. It has a long article that includes about all the known information on these coal docks including some basic dimensional data.

Ken

I purchased a Legacy Cab Forward engine on the OGR Forum and am excited about the purchase. Engine 4291....Thanks for Asking. Happy Thanksgiving Matthew and family.

it is used, but it is TMCC and is reported to look NIB

A lot of cool stuff. I have accumulated several nice things lately including an f3 B unit  from the forum, traded an extra Lionel 671 steam turbine for a very nice NW2 #322,  got another steam turbine, 681 and a really nice, early(prewar) #1684 from 1941-42 with box couplers. In very nice shape and runs like a scalded dog.  There is a TCA meet in Cranberry on Sunday so will be dumpster diving there looking for fixer-uppers.

I spent enough time in Virginia and reading about Virginia railroads to say, WOW!

I just picked these 2 up this past Tuesday.

 A    B    AND  B    AND  ANOTHER B      A

THE MIDDLE ONE JUST A LITTLE BIT STRONGER THAN SIBLINGS ON RIGHT AND LEFT

This was droped off by the UPS man yesterday. I also got 2 UPS Package Trucks

This really impressed me.....so I bought it.  Pecos River Brass ATSF 50' boxcar painted for MoW yet the former paint scheme "ghosts" thru.  It was always fun for me to see a cut of outfit cars in the consist of a road switcher.

I bought some Pecos River 50 ft box cars recently......VERY nice cars. Too bad they don't make them any longer.

A couple of Hornby prewar Metropolitan type coaches followed me home from Cal-Stewart today.

Steve

Rob,

I have all of the SF 50' boxcars and would like to find this. Were there extras?

Eric

Really nice building, Scot.

I think the next time we're in Orange visiting the in laws, I'm following you to a train show. You come up with some great finds Steve.

For SD40-2, it was purchased from "them who shall not be named" if you know what I mean. So, it was the only one.

In all fairness, the seller has a real hobby shop, yet also conducts internet auctions.

P.S. I like "Papa" Eastman's reply about items "following him home".  I intend to plagiarize that one.

Those Hornby cars are really neat. I picked up, in a rade for some Lionel junk I had, 3 Lionel lithographed freight cars and a caboose from 1941-42 They went with the 1684 engine I bought last weekend-which runs like a charm. This is the first transition pieces I have acquired except for two passenger cars. It is amazing how nice some of these old trains, that are in good, run. shape. I have several.

Picked this Dorfan 51 up today at Cal-Stewart. Very nice casting. Now to see if I can get it to run.

Steve

I just paypal'd an Ebay seller for two of these 1/43 trucks. We completed the sale privately, and he only had this stock photo, but he claims NIB. I'll see next week. Lol. Very good price.

They are Mercedes-Benz, but ..... I think they fit my modeling era, I do "ESSO," and I think they look so cool.

Couldn't resist Charlie Ro's 'Flyer sale last weekend and picked up this sweet "S" 2-8-8-2. Runs like a Swiss watch...

Another Cal-Stewart pick up. Needs a little work, but runs well.

Steve

I'm waiting for this guy to arrive.  It's an early 1930's Scalecraft PRR K-4.  No traction tires, no command control, no can motors... just good old heavy metal doorstop material.  Yes, I am planning on repainting and detailing it, but it should be a good engine.

I like it !!

Yes, I ordered this Santa, along with a helper elf, from Scenic Express. He's one of the best looking Santas I've ever seen this size, so I adjusted him to fit into this truck cab for my re-crafting, last Saturday night, of the Lionel layout @ FAO Schwarz, in NYC. He's driving, with an elf accompanying him, transporting a big load of presents on their way to happy homes everywhere.

FrankM.

Thanks Jim and Keith!

Yes, there were a few companies that produced trains like this.  Scalecraft, Lobaugh, Walthers, are but a few of the more well known manufactures.  Keep in mind there were mostly sold as kits, but there were a lot of neat trains.  I suspect is was at least partially the success of these scale detailed loco's that pushed Lionel to create the 700E and the B6 switcher.  Really neat trains.  Here is another shot of another Scalecraft K4 that I picked up several years ago in kit form along with a new Lionel Legacy K-4 for comparison.

I wouldn't call any of these "cool" but they will be used to make an AA with six passenger cars Great Northern Empire Builder train using postwar Lionel engines and newer smooth-sided passenger cars:

1.  Two Lionel F3 A unit cabs--purchased from OGR forumite Martin H.  Ironically, they were repaints in GN EB livery, but they'll be stripped and redone along with the other pieces.  I already had the A unit frames, motors, etc.

2.  Illinois Central diner and observation cars.

3.  TCA full dome car.  Lionel made the GN EB full dome, but I did not want to have to match the Lionel colors; beside, Lionel doesn't continue striping across  the vestibule or other end of the car.  Also, Lionel makes it simple to shoot the dome since the dome framework separates easily from the clear plastic "windows."

I already had a NYC duplex car; NYC coach; and, NYC combo car.

I'll post some pictures as I go along. 

And yes, I'd love to be able to do an ABA and 9 or more car consist; but, I simply don't have the room.  AA's with six cars satisfies my eye.