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StevefromPA posted:

Picked up a few things at Nick Smith’s, Henning’s, a local Flea market and the Hamburg train meet this past Sunday.

 

Weaver stock car from the Danville PA Iron Heritage Festival. I just liked the car, didn’t realize the story behind it.

 

I was at the Hamburg meet Sunday. I was surprised at all the empty tables, good prices and dealers I delt with were willing to deal. I picked up a very nice pw Lionel 2559 at a reasonable price.

Danville "Iron Heritage Festival" celebrating it's heritage of their several foundries yrs ago, and also the first iron rail was manufactured there.

I just picked this PRR Flat with a LHG tank on in from eBay. First purchase in a while.

This came UPS a couple of days ago

Trussman posted:

StevefromPA posted:

Picked up a few things at Nick Smith’s, Henning’s, a local Flea market and the Hamburg train meet this past Sunday.

 

Weaver stock car from the Danville PA Iron Heritage Festival. I just liked the car, didn’t realize the story behind it.

 

 

I was at the Hamburg meet Sunday. I was surprised at all the empty tables, good prices and dealers I delt with were willing to deal. I picked up a very nice pw Lionel 2559 at a reasonable price.

Danville "Iron Heritage Festival" celebrating it's heritage of their several foundries yrs ago, and also the first iron rail was manufactured there.

@Trussman I thiuhht it was you who also said they’d be at Hamburg! Anyway, nice find on the 2559! If this was a couple months ago, I would’ve been buying like crazy for parts,rolling stock, etc... considering how unbelievably low the prices were. But like, I said, I wanted a TMCC diesel in particular few of which were there.

also, looked into the Iron Hertiage Festival a bit an got the history. It’s really cool, but not in expected in the state of PA, that a company like Weaver, with its PA origins, would commemorate that. My stock car has “256/300” etched in the bottom. Not that I care, it’s a war car I bought for $10 and is interesting to compare to my Atlas O-Scale stock car

A local store got a shipment of cheap plastic battery-powered HO trains. Each set includes a steam locomotive coal car, and two other cars, along with tracks. Price is $6.

 I found one with two gondolas. A regular HO loco can actually push them around the track. So now they're hauling material for my (still unbuilt) Coca Cola bottle cap manufacturing and repair facility.

Atlas 11k Tank cars. Gorgeous.

Went to Gryzboski’s today. What a great store and great service. Had one thing in mind and got it so Mission successful. Got some other things as well:

Got these Lionelville structures. The UPS store is used and modified(that lamp isn’t supposed to be there) but I think it looks fine. The ranch house I bought new 

Next, the accessories. Bought a starter set loop of FasTrack- which I don’t use(I use O-27 tubular, O-31 tubular, and Realtrax 31 inch radius) that said, the start Loop is perfect if I integrate FasTrack at sometime OR require a larger radius curve. Bottom left is a Porsche Cayenne 1/43 scale, some signs(all diecast), a tubular crossing, bag of figures, and a K-line SWAT Team to add to my current police and black-ops force.

Finally...my first TMCC engine!! Lionel Amtrak Dash-9 Cab numbed 510.

Love this guy- truth is, however, I’m actually afraid to run it.  I’ve read and read and read articles, manuals, magazines, forum posts, etc...  but I’ve never run a TMCC engine before. Regardless- I’m pretty confident I’ll figure it out. 

StevefromPA posted:

Trussman posted:

StevefromPA posted:

Picked up a few things at Nick Smith’s, Henning’s, a local Flea market and the Hamburg train meet this past Sunday.

 

Weaver stock car from the Danville PA Iron Heritage Festival. I just liked the car, didn’t realize the story behind it.

 

 

I was at the Hamburg meet Sunday. I was surprised at all the empty tables, good prices and dealers I delt with were willing to deal. I picked up a very nice pw Lionel 2559 at a reasonable price.

Danville "Iron Heritage Festival" celebrating it's heritage of their several foundries yrs ago, and also the first iron rail was manufactured there.

@Trussman I thiuhht it was you who also said they’d be at Hamburg! Anyway, nice find on the 2559! If this was a couple months ago, I would’ve been buying like crazy for parts,rolling stock, etc... considering how unbelievably low the prices were. But like, I said, I wanted a TMCC diesel in particular few of which were there.

also, looked into the Iron Hertiage Festival a bit an got the history. It’s really cool, but not in expected in the state of PA, that a company like Weaver, with its PA origins, would commemorate that. My stock car has “256/300” etched in the bottom. Not that I care, it’s a war car I bought for $10 and is interesting to compare to my Atlas O-Scale stock car

Weaver's  is approx. 5 miles south of Danville Pa. They've made several limited editions of railroad cars commemorating several business and events in the area.

Here she is.... ONLY 1 of three factory painted in the first run and only 1 of 1 done in three rail!

Bought handmade wall art from a local artist 

Maybe it isn't really supposed to be in this thread, but a very nice Craftsman scrolling saber saw I got at a resale shop in Zeeland Mi. for $4 that's like new is pretty cool.  I have used it and it truly is much superior to the modern plastic one I have that's supposedly a Craftsman tool.  This thing has trigger controlled speed and its weight makes cutting so much easier and smoother.  I have a thing for well made tools that are a pleasure to work with.  

Should have explained more about this at first.  I am putting Williams E7 motors & trucks and later, Tru-Blast Plus into a Railking SD9 dummy.  This requires making a new chassis.  I picked up a sheet of 12 ga. mild steel at Menards and had put off cutting out the chassis because the saber saw I had was an el cheapo Craftsman from this century. When the wife & I went resale shop shopping last month, lo and behold there was this jewel of a saw just waiting for me to take it home.  It really did a nice job cutting out the piece for my chassis and some of the detail work on the holes.  I knew I had squirreled away the old style blades for a reason.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Here she is.... ONLY 1 of three factory painted in the first run and only 1 of 1 done in three rail!

If more diesels looked that sharp, they would sell more diesels.

some new/ old patio lighting... from the 70's, a Model 220F (appears to be all original) and 220J (with some replacement parts).  both in great shape & together picked up at ½ the cost of a brand new one.

got some new mantles and a can of fuel today so i'll see how they work this evening.  flashbacks to camping with the family as a kid.

Nice lanterns.  I pulled my dad’s Coleman lantern and stove out of his basement.  I hadn’t used them in decades!

I bet it still works Mark. Coleman made (makes) great stuff.

lumenosity...!

... only needed a few drops of oil for the pump.

I have one of those and this Aladdin for when the power goes out.

Silver Lake posted:

I got some cars that will really set the time period on my layout. 

I have been looking for these for a long time. Non sports cars but common and recognizable vehicles of the time I am trying to show. 

Ah, very nice. Who’s the maker ?

The two latest additions to my roster...

First from the good folks at the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers (NLOE) - their latest LIRR offering - a really nice car with crisp graphics.

I recently learned that the O&W actually had a branch that passed through Northeast PA, a bit north of where I live... so I just had to get something from the O&W. Picked up this bobber from Grzyboski’s - I was very surprised at how heavy this little car is due to the die cast truck.