Buy anything cool lately?

I could not come up with a way to answer that one without getting in trouble.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...x-Wooden_trestle.jpg

one heck of a bridge (be neat to make)

Nice set of K-Line 21" Sante Fe Lightweights with the gloss finish. Just can't beat those K-Lines.

PTC, do you have any photos? I'd love to see them

A picture is worth 1000 words...and won't get you booted.

I just couldnt pass up an opportunity to use that joke

Not rare or unusual but I like it!!!! 

 

 

A Williams GG-1 in PRR Tuscan five stripe.  I had a Williams GG-1 in Amtrak silver, blue and red, which was nice.....but I like this one better. A very small scratch on the nose made it cheap....and an easy fix for me.  Now I need to someday build a line with catenary for these two and some other juice boxes to run!

My best find was a Max Gray brass water tower.  Couldn't find the Walthers, so the Max Gray will have to do.

That just might be a better find!!!!!

Kinda on topic.....as a kid I was given a magazine, the one with the blue header. It had an article on a doctors collection of Max Gray brass O scale locomotives. It was mainly photos of each loco on his layout.  I looked over that article hundreds of times in my youth.  I still don't own anything Max Gray but that name always brings positive memories.  Thx

Ta Da. Got it from another forum member.

A little Std Gauge CMC 2-4-0 was one of my earliest Std gauge purchases. Just got the 13 & 16 coaches to go with it.

 

Steve

 

 

OK so I couildnt help myself and I took the AC-9 out today, WOW!!! I think ill get another one, absolutely beautiful loco. Scott did a great job on that one. I also got 2 new CNW 2 bay hoppers and a K-Line 13 Colonies Caboose, I love that patriotic stuff.

Picked up this little K-Line  0-4-0 from a local hobby shop for $60.00.The previous owner had painted over the PRR lettering and hand painted the tender for Union Pacific in red paint.Half of the pilot was broken off. I rebuilt the pilot and installed a scale coupler, removed the red UP lettering+striping,installed cords for the bell+whistle and re-lettered+repainted+weathered the little guy. He runs and smokes like a champ now!

 

Ricky

I have a max gray yard tower if interested.  $100 + postage, offlist contact

I got this bad boy in the mail today, $30 shipped form that one site

 

 

Well....it's not super cool or rare........but I just got this in the mail and was very pleasantly surprised how nice it was. Weaver plastic car very good paint and printed graphics. It will look great behind my great Grandfathers B&O steam loco I am working on. Thanks

 

 

 

No, but a cold drenching water hose would be nice about now!

 

It's hot out!

 

Mike Maurice

this buying thing. I think I might have to seek therapy. Lionel tmcc  A-B-A Santa Fe Pa1 both a's are powered and a Williams Santa Fe Yellow Bonnet A-B-A it's new still in shipping container.

I can't see them Williams locos.......OPEN them up!!!!

waiting myself to see them waiting on shipping been on google all morning to see if there is any photo's of the Williams one's I have seen the mth version. want to see what the Williams one's look like .

 

OH...OK.....should look like this!!!!!

 

MTH Rail King M1a Mountain Steam Loco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do not have Yellow Bonnets....but the locos look exactly like my WbB units I just got.

A loop of regular Lionel O gauge tubular track!  It's not much, just eight 10" straights and eight O31 curves, but it's the track system I want to use from now on.

Aaron

I use tubular track as well- It's really nice and durable.

Ives Std Gauge Repro 3243 White set from 2001 arrived today. Supposedly unrun, but displayed for sure. Working my way through all the minor bugs.

 

Steve

 

 

I am seriously disappointed in myself for missing those WBB yellow bonnets, I'm the buyer for lots of o gauge at LHS

 

Postwar Vs. WbB:

 

 

K-line vs. Williams by Bachmann :

 

Why is the nose taller on the K-Line RS-3 loco??? A PRR thing or just a different version??? Nice any way!

My latest motive power purchase...a pair of MTH Premier Providence & Worcester GP38-2's.  Both units are powered, and are shown below on their initial "shake-down" run on the WIHABL Railroad.  A big thank you to MTH for continuing to produce locomotives in regional (and often lesser-known) road names!!

YES - Three Vehicles, Still in Box

I purchased 3 vehicles, all manufactured by www.AmericanHeritageModels.com

 

See Photo

1/43 Scale - Yellow Cab Ford, Borden's Milk Truck, Yellow Cab Co. Ford

 

Cheers from Michigan

 

Just picked up another UP caboose

Thanks, Keith.  The Ohio Central is another perfect example.  I hope MTH keeps them coming our way!

 

As a quick PS to my post above, although the Williams diesels are a terrific value for conventional operators, always consider the RK Scale series of diesels if you want command control & smoke. Reason - if adding ERR cruise PLUS sound to the Williams units you will have WAY too much $$ into them rather than buying the RK models in most cases. Especially if you shop 'previously owned'...

Last evening I picked up an MTH Railking PRR L1 Mikado from OGR forum member LITrain over at the TMB train club in Farmingdale, NY. The Long Island-based club is building a massive 4,000+ square foot multi level, multi track layout in its new facility. LITrain gave me a tour and I met several awesome club members. I have a feeling I will be joining TMB in the near future.

 

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This morning on "The Bay" I snagged an auction of unused MTH/Railking goodies that includes two Tell Tales, a Water Column, three ITADs, a Pennsy block signal, a pack of two Pennsy plugin signal heads, a dwarf signal, two packs of figures, a pack of two generators and a pack of telephone poles for $142. 

But cant find the mth version