Thanks Steve!!

Displayed in a place of honor, just above the Lionel "Spirits" reefers.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

I think it needs more than one car Larry!

It is a switcher.  Larry's just in the midst of assembling a train to traverse that mighty railroad of his.

Well I will cheat and offer up a gift that I received two weeks ago from a former co-worker. It is old hat to most but represents the first operating car I have. I know: get going here.  Have a great day. Pretty soggy in southern Indiana.

Picked up this nice MTH Premier UP AC4400CW to augment my modern diesel power.  It seemed a perfect candidate to pull my new tank cars.

@paulp575 posted:

UPS delivered two boxes and FedEx delivered one box today.

Wonder what's in this huge box. It's too short to be a loco. Hmmmmmmm............

It'll be part of the loco & caboose set I received a couple week ago.

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My LionChief "Daylight" cab forward arrived yesterday from Ready to Roll in Florida.

Runs great and fits in well with my compact postwar theme layout.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

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I'll be unboxing it today.

Bogart Neat car. I really like these little operating cars like this one, giraffe cars, horse cars etc. Great find. Neat UP 70ton as well I have one on my layout and really like it. Best wishes.
Don

Just picked this up today at a local antique mall, Not a real big fan of Department 56 on the layout. But I thought it was unique enough, lighted sign and interior plus moving leds on the sign. Still had the original $95.00 price tag on the bottom, has a few nics , but for $19.95 Its good enough for me.

Jeff

@Lionelski posted:

I picked up a real nice Post War Lionel Girls set from an estate - something I did not know that i needed, or even wanted:

If you don't mind me asking... how much did you pay for that set? And it's in beautiful shape too!

@StevefromPA  Yes the SW1 is new production. Seems like I had it on order for-ever!  My son who was living in Chicago would hook up with us as we were heading to see his brother in Grand Rapids. Once we figured out it was far more convenient to pick him up in Michigan City, he became a convert to riding the South Shore Line. I was looking for a switcher for my railroad - this line seemed to fit as well as any other.

From what I can find SSL had one SW1 #601 (someone did their homework). They later split into a commuter railroad and a private freight RR. Interesting tidbit they were once managed by the C&O.   

To most people, I'm sure this isn't a "cool" purchase.  But my wife works at the DoIt Best world headquarters in Ft Wayne, IN.  There aren't a lot of toys out there with the DiB logo, so finding this one was a sweet purchase for me!

(not my picture)

Any purchasewith a personal connection is always cool.

Hey everyone, so as most of you guys might know from my last post I said that I had acquired quite a lot of stuff over the past several months. However if I were to try to put everything that I have collected or acquired recently into this post it would be quite a lot lol. So instead I figured I would share some stuff that I’ve been working on as of recently and also share some links of the stuff that I acquired running.

I just finished my second Amtrak and fleet passenger coach in detailing its interior. So I’ve gotten two down and two more to go. I also tried hand painting figures for the first time and actually it was kind of fun. I didn’t do it for all of the figures just some of them as I wanted to have black people represented in my coaches.

Just thought I’d attach a couple of photos so you guys can see what I’ve been up to. Works been so crazy I really haven’t had time to be on the forum much which kind of sucks because I really like communicating with everybody that’s here.  The two links are from the Austin model train show and the Temple model train show that I took while with the model train club that I’m a part of the Austin Tinplate Trackers.

Hope all is well with everyone!

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My LHS suffered flood damage a few weeks ago, so I bought a couple of nice steamers there: a Williams and a Lionel probably made in the mid to late 1990s, some scenery materials, and the Woodland Scenics Morrison's Door Factory.

@Drewski1992 posted:

Hey everyone, so as most of you guys might know from my last post I said that I had acquired quite a lot of stuff over the past several months. However if I were to try to put everything that I have collected or acquired recently into this post it would be quite a lot lol. So instead I figured I would share some stuff that I’ve been working on as of recently and also share some links of the stuff that I acquired running.

I just finished my second Amtrak and fleet passenger coach in detailing its interior. So I’ve gotten two down and two more to go. I also tried hand painting figures for the first time and actually it was kind of fun. I didn’t do it for all of the figures just some of them as I wanted to have black people represented in my coaches.

Just thought I’d attach a couple of photos so you guys can see what I’ve been up to. Works been so crazy I really haven’t had time to be on the forum much which kind of sucks because I really like communicating with everybody that’s here.  The two links are from the Austin model train show and the Temple model train show that I took while with the model train club that I’m a part of the Austin Tinplate Trackers.

Hope all is well with everyone!

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Looks good Drewski . 👍

I like the way you have the figures positioned in the windows . Sometimes it's difficult to get a good look like that when looking through the windows.

Don't work too hard.    Don't worry about not getting on the Forum enough...........there are a bunch of us that have OUR  WORK  DAYS  .........on our LAYOUTS . 😉

Since I can't go to York, too far for me, I have to settle with my local train store and ebay. I just received these for the new Intermodal yard I am gonna be building soon, well sorta of a yard..

Between my PostWar Lionel girls set purchase last week, and yesterday's purchase of the PostWar Lionel beauty shown here, I guess York will me mostly a 4 day social function for me.

Just arrived today: Morton Salt SW-1 Switcher!  It's my first Rail King Engine purchase and I haven't burst into flames just yet.  It will go well with my menagerie of Morton Salt 3-bay hoppers.  (An NW-2 would have perhaps been more exciting but it serves its purpose.)  I should probably look for the Factory at this point.

Anthony

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@Brooklyn Corey posted:

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Nice set, Corey. I took it 1 train to Lincoln Center many, many times. I was rather pleasantly surprised at the realistic sounds, especially the wheel squeal and breaking. But what really got me (and what gave me some horrible flashbacks to my days riding the subways in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s) was the final announcement - “Attention passengers... this train is going out of service”

MPC BCRR Set!

@A. Wells posted:

Just arrived today: Morton Salt SW-1 Switcher!  It's my first Rail King Engine purchase and I haven't burst into flames just yet.  It will go well with my menagerie of Morton Salt 3-bay hoppers.  (An NW-2 would have perhaps been more exciting but it serves its purpose.)  I should probably look for the Factory at this point.

Anthony

Nice Anthony.

This would be a really nice one for my wife.  Maybe hauling a gondola with a bunch of puppies......?........

(  we drove to Cincinnati tho get a rescue dog........ a partially blind and partially deaf 12 year old ,almost white miniature Schauzer  ..............name..............MORTON ..aka Morty. )

@Brooklyn Corey posted:

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Really nice Corey.🤓

Watching your videos sure makes me wish i had some way to incorporate a subway system on my small layout.             I'm going to have to get some of my gray matter more active.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice Anthony.

This would be a really nice one for my wife.  Maybe hauling a gondola with a bunch of puppies......?........

(  we drove to Cincinnati tho get a rescue dog........ a partially blind and partially deaf 12 year old ,almost white miniature Schauzer  ..............name..............MORTON ..aka Morty. )

That's funny!  I have a completely blind cat.  Her interest include the boxes that my train stuff comes in. A

@A. Wells posted:

That's funny!  I have a completely blind cat.  Her interest include the boxes that my train stuff comes in. A

Well Anthony , there are a lot of people that say all this is nothing more than playing with little toy trains........ ...........after seeing different photos and videos on this Forum it seems like the little critters have a greater respect for the hobby than thosepeople  😉

Got this at a model train show over the weekend for just 30 bucks:

Not RR marked but it has a "blue flag" frenel globe and a good burner

Brought the new MTLionel Christmas Barn.  Looks great.  Added a blinking red LED to Rudolph's window.

More pictures and video HERE.

More items added to my collection.

Collecting BN/BNSF items that are not similar to what I already have in my collection (Lionel 2126031 - Burlington Northern PS-5 Covered Gondola ):

Every time I went back to WI to visit my parents, seems like I constantly heard "Save Big Money at Menards" so had to get this boxcar (279-4556 - Menards "Save Big Money" Boxcar):

And why not this car (279-5345 - Menards Boxcar (Green)):

Had one more item in my Menards box, but problem with one of the trucks. One of the axles is either too long or too short. That end of the truck won't stay in place. Already requested an exchange.

Stop at a garage sale and spotted a red nose of a American Flyer PA sitting on top of a box with the B unit and 3 shiny passenger cars. I could not resist, I mostly have O gauge but that PA nose made me buy them. Will clean them up and get them running and put up a loop of S gauge track.

@franktrain posted:

Stop at a garage sale and spotted a red nose of a American Flyer PA sitting on top of a box with the B unit and 3 shiny passenger cars. I could not resist, I mostly have O gauge but that PA nose made me buy them. Will clean them up and get them running and put up a loop of S gauge track.

My cousin had that set. It's a beauty. Looks like it's in good shape too.

Enjoy

Keeping the Santa Fe theme going. I just picked up this Lionel AA set from a forum member. The blue freight scheme is one of my faves.

The powered unit is going to get a ERR AC commander upgrade soon.

Bob

I'm pretty sure the Mail Lady and the UPS driver were cussing me under their breath today.

@beardog49 posted:

sorry, wrong vid in the last post,

Love seeing Marx; thanks for sharing.  Good luck finding the pilot set; let us know if you have any luck.

Purchased this through the NYC Historical Society... The book takes you on a photographic journey from Grand Central to Albany and beyond along the Central’s Water Level Route through an amazing collection of photograph. A couple of years ago, the same author published a “companion” volume covering the Harlem Line and the Old Put. Gotten about half way through, and I’m very happy with my purchase!!!

Got a set of Lionel Legacy Chicago Great Western F7’s to go along with my MrMuffin’sTrains CGW GP30!

Received special club car that I ordered Nov 2020.

@Apples55 posted:

Purchased this through the NYC Historical Society... The book takes you on a photographic journey from Grand Central to Albany and beyond along the Central’s Water Level Route through an amazing collection of photograph. A couple of years ago, the same author published a “companion” volume covering the Harlem Line and the Old Put. Gotten about half way through, and I’m very happy with my purchase!!!

Paul that's the east side of the Hudson, correct? It's two tracks now but wasn't 4 in the NYCs prime?