What Did You Buy at York?

Not enough yet only got through dealer halls today.

Just pulled the trigger from Mario on a B&O WBB 4-6-0. Price was WAY lower than the dude in the Orange Hall plus shipping was free. All in all, not bad. Heard so many great things about this little loco. Hopefully it runs cool, unlike my WBB J which is once again at my dealer for overheating (shout out to Larry Harrington at Bachmann - asked him about it and he immediately offered to send me a new motor for it at no charge. Didn't even have to ask. Excellent service. Thanks Larry!)

First timer. And Wow.WOW WOW!!!

Found a set of lionel E6 Rock Islands.  Really rare. Brand new.

Burlington E5s. Ps4 cars with piggy back trailers. Great prices. Ca4 cabooses. UP. And some scale PS2 covered hoppers. All on day one.

Metal coal hopper car loads, Lionel Premium smoke, some great deals on more hopper cars for my all-hopper car freight consist. MTH club Membership.

If anyone saw a company called Jelsma Graphics then let me know. They sold me an item a few weeks ago. (They make Railroad Clothing)

I actually found the Junior Suspension Bridge I was looking for at the price I wanted to pay. I started in the Blue Hall at noon and 15 minutes later I had the bridge in hand for $35.00. Quite a surprise because I was not confident that I would find one.

Three American Excellence/NEO 1:43 cars (total $220.) from the folks at DiecastDirect (that for some reason goes under a different booth name).

But best of all...2 vintage Corningware covered cooking pots from a antique mall on the way to York for only $8. each.

Jim McGehee posted:

I actually found the Junior Suspension Bridge I was looking for at the price I wanted to pay. I started in the Blue Hall at noon and 15 minutes later I had the bridge in hand for $35.00. Quite a surprise because I was not confident that I would find one.

 

It doesn't get much better than that. Congratulations.

When I saw Alex Malliae's pics of the Korber booth, I was very excited because I noticed that they had one of the 2-stall engine houses on display. I've been interested in it since they announced it at the October York, but it never appeared on their website. So I made Korber my second priority on Thursday (got there just after noon). I was able to measure the structure and determined it would fit on my layout. They had the standard 24" kits available for sale, but, having little artistic talent, I wanted the built up/painted/lighted version. I spoke to Alex (who was manning the booths with his delightful wife) and told him I was interested in one, and he immediately offered me the one on display... soooo, I am now the proud owner of an Alex Malliae original (and signed!!!) Korber engine house. And before the purists have a canary and the rivet counters pop one, in my little 14x16 world, large steamers use diesel houses!!! Really wish I had the room for a turntable and roundhouse, but that's a whole other issue.

Picked up a MPC track bumper, some electrical parts from Dallee (along with a wiring diagram and helpful advice on how-to-install), and a MPC #783 Hudson at Trainz.com (paint peeling off deck of tender and "SOS & whistle" doesn't work - but hey, I can replace that with a postwar whistle that I prefer). Good prices there. Got to see nearly all my York friends. So, a good meet for me.

I picked up a very decent Post-war Grey topped Lackawanna FM and some near mint Super O 112R switches along with a couple of videos and Lou Palumbo's "I've never met a train I didn't like" publication.  As always I had a  really good time.   I was there Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.  

I found 2 Railking flat cars, one with pickup trucks and one with vans, a track cleaning car and a rooftop tank kit from River Leaf Models (Andre). Andre's structures are very impressive. They look even better in person than in his excellent pictures. I also got my DCS system upgraded to version 5.0 by MTH. I may go back tomorrow morning for one last walk through before heading home.

I picked up 3 Weaver SD40-2's from Bob Feneran and Merrill Tucker from the NJ Hi-Railers. Definitely a bargain for all 3 at once.

Oh yeah, and a Missouri Pacific boxcar by Lionel, a CD by TM Books & Video, and a Lionel T-shirt. Very happy with what I got, and spent less than I thought I would need to. Not to mention ran into a few familiar faces in the hobby, and met some very nice people, young and old.

Well day two and my head hurts.

I bought 2 newly released  MTH Ca1 cabooses, 1 lionel Wabash scale reefer, 2 cantelever crossing signals and a lionel veranda UP turbine.!

Ate at Smokey Bones and called it a day

I picked up the MTH Wifi Interface Unit,the MTH York Club Car,the MTH Railking Penn Central Crane Car from Just Trains and the Conrail Ore Car w/ore load from MTH as well today. I cannot wait to try the Wifi unit.

Hornby

Always a good trip no matter what the haul and best of all is meeting old and new friends.  This years haul includes:

For me personally:

MTH Penny Gondola

Atlas L&N Gondola

Atlas Tank car (weathered)

Lionel Legacy Burlington Northern SD40

Cable reels (laser cut from Andre Garcia)

Acetone paints in various rust colors

RR Jacket (BTW the quality of the clothes from the dealer in the center of Orange hall is GREAT)

OGR Great layout adventures Vol 12

Mega Steam Smoke (Will call pick up from Jeb K)

Picked up a dozen scale cars that I had Harry Hieke weather for me)

For the TMB Club (@Scenic Express)

4 - 5-gallon pails of Ballast

Lots of plaster cloth

4 variations of of the new super leaf

Bag of BIG Pine trees

What  GREAT show. I got the stuff I wanted, which wasn't really all that much after taking home trunk loads of stuff twice a year for over 20 years.

Jeb had my pre-order on the smoke I wanted. What a great convenience.

Got the OGR DVD with Don Klose's and Dave Minarik's layouts. I've been to both of them, and I can't wait to see the videos and be po'd at everything I missed.

Got the TM DVD, Christmas 2015. Gotta have Marty's layout on a DVD.

eHobby had the LeMax items I wanted. They are SO nice to deal with. And have been for years. 

Trying to figure out what to order from the new MTH catalog.

Really wanted to buy something from Mr. Muffin, but didn't find anything this time around. I'll have to try harder in October (or call Steve ahead of time so he brings what I want).

Anxiously awaiting the posts from the nattering nabobs of negativism who will tell us why York is doomed and isn't anywhere near as good as it used to be. Once that arrives, the Spring, 2016 York is complete.

Gerry

I already bought a ZW for $100 from a friend of mine. The condition of it was greater than the ZW's that were being sold there. Regardless I picked up a Lionel postwar Ice Depot for $120. Best price I've seen for that piece.