Buy anything cool lately?

@Kelunaboy posted:

I back shelved my second level plans and decided to go BIG with the Atlas turntable.

It dominates the whole right side of my layout, but I think there is great operating and urban scenery options.

Have to see the rest of the layout, but one suggest  would be  take your lead track off the curve, move the table  back down the loop and you engine tracks toward the  other side of the loop and then go back and double track the main. put  you station where  your power pack is

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I stopped into a train store in my home town of Jeannette. Niedzalkoski’s is a small shop specializing mainly in HO but with reasonable amount of O gauge on the shelves. I picked up this refer at a great price after the 10% discount they were offering on roiling stock.

@ncdave posted:

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I stopped into a train store in my home town of Jeannette. Niedzalkoski’s is a small shop specializing mainly in HO but with reasonable amount of O gauge on the shelves. I picked up this refer at a great price after the 10% discount they were offering on roiling stock.

The pale stale ale with the foam at the bottom!  Ah, memories!   

Mitch

Hi ncdave, I lived in Greensburg from 1953 to 1963. I still call it home. Dave

@ncdave posted:

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I …

I always learn something new on this forum. My late mother (originally from Pittsburgh) used to jokingly refer to her boss as Frothingslosh. (The surname was actually quite close.)  Now I know where it came from.

This reefer is fantastic; the graphic is terrific. The details even include the (clever) instructions for returning when empty.

However, it looks like whomever lettered the left side was sampling the product.  It says FLothingslosh, with an “L”, not an “R”.  I wonder whether they all are like this?

NCdave, who was the manufacturer of this great item? Thanks.

TRRR

@ncdave posted:

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I stopped into a train store in my home town of Jeannette. Niedzalkoski’s is a small shop specializing mainly in HO but with reasonable amount of O gauge on the shelves. I picked up this refer at a great price after the 10% discount they were offering on roiling stock.

say that name 3 times fast after having a few.......

Great looking car, love the graphics.

Bob

It is said that Beer can be addictive, the problem is while, I'm not big on beer, (Jack Danials is more my thing) I'm having withdrawls on building beer cars.  Back In my HO days, my wife had to stage am intervention when I had finished repainting my two hundredth HO scale House cars into Private Label beer cars.  Yours might start the problem all over again

Some of my recent purchases.

The U.S. SPACE MISSLES is an Atlantis kit from Hobby Lobby.  I eyed it many times but at a scale of 1:128 I just didn't figure it would fit.  When they put the $33 kit on clearance for $8.25 it had to come home.  It'll make a nic Rocket Garden for the Visitor's Center when I display my Cape Notcanaveral.  I remember someone putting one of these Nike Hercules Missile launchers on a flat car.  I believe it was ScaleRail and he had some Speedy Gonzales decals on it.  I thought that was cool so when I came across the kit at Ollie's I grabbed two.

The Bud Dry tank car is a K-Line.  I always liked K-Line's single dome with the platform and handrail and with my early penchant for Budweiser and AB's strong marketing combined with a very attractive price on eBay this Bud Dry  tanker has taking a spot on my AB roster.

@ncdave posted:

Last week while I was visiting family in Western Pennsylvania I stopped into a train store in my home town of Jeannette. Niedzalkoski’s is a small shop specializing mainly in HO but with reasonable amount of O gauge on the shelves. I picked up this refer at a great price after the 10% discount they were offering on roiling stock.

I remember the TV ads in home town Youngstown Ohio!

Ron

Great way to mix interest.  and I thought my end of train only outhouse car was something

I snagged a Lionel dummy A.T.&S.F. E8 off 'da bay' recently and am enjoying it for the level of detail it has. Surprised that it is older than I thought (time flies as you age!) and I've set it with a Lionel E6 and MTH E6 B unit for a nice display.

TRRR, This car is a MTH Railking refer. I don’t know if they all were made with a misspelling of the name. I’m going to have to look a both sides of the car now to see if they are spelled the same. Maybe the Chinese workers had a little too much pale  stale ale during manufacturing.

Thanks for the reply about MTH, Dave.  I did a quick web search after posting. The “L” appears in the web photo hits as well.

@Steaming Jon posted:

Picked up a “like new” old MTH 2-6-0 starter set from FB marketplace for my nephew… (switched out the boxcar with one from my collection since the one that came with the set didn’t have opening doors). He’s gonna love it, I can’t wait to give it to him!!

Thought you all might like to know that this set has been delivered to my nephew and he loves it!

I just picked up the MTH Railking Erie Lackawana SD-45 30-21118-1 from Just Trains yesterday.Very sharp locomotive.

MTH  Ps2  Premier 0-4-0

New to me this week from the terific people zat Trainz.

Not completely train related, but I have moved to the next stage of my life, and bought a new house.  Now I have to determine what exactly I want to do.  This will be my second layout move, and either I can start completely over, or utilize parts of my existing layout and build from there.  The existing layout is 20 years old, so I am thinking of mostly starting over.  The big advantage of mostly starting over would be to use a wider radius curve.  Current layout has 0-54 which while great to run pretty much everything, but doesn't let me run some of the really big steam engines that I find so attractive.

Decisions, decisions decisions.  Stay tuned.

John

Some new additions.  The Lionel 6812 Track Maintenance car is from the original train my brothers and I had as kids.  The men, top platform and crank are all replacement parts so I'm not worried about value.  I thought about making it a fire fighting car.  I've got the seat and monitor to replace the worker on the upper level, still need the seated fireman, and the spray arms to wet down the right of way once I fabricate brackets.  Such a mighty fire fighting tool would need a water supply;

so  here it is.  I figure some Walther's flanges, valves and piping on the pump and some of Pat's spring hoses to connect to the track maintenance car.

I have several of these Lionel spine car sets, NYC, Southern, SP.  When they first came out they catalogs said they were usually used as 5 car articulated units.  I thought I needed one more to give two 5 car units when I spied  this SeaLand set on eBay for a good price so I pulled the trigger.  Well it wasn't my 5th set it was my 4th so I guess I'll run them as one 5 car unit and one 3 car unit.  When running hotshot intermodal the different trailers will suffice but I believe I have enough NYC containers that I can run the 5 unit on the Water Level Route to Albany.

Not just neat, really neat

Recently added two new locomotives that in the word of Star Wars character "General Grievous", would be "fine additions to my collection!"
A Lionel Warhorse J #600 with tmcc, sound, and smoke and the recently released Atlas F7 in a Southern Pacific "Bloody Nose" paintjob. Both have been pretty cool additions but the Warhorse J with it's TMCC is my favorite of the two since I now finally have an N&W J class with some form of command control!