Summertime acquisitions

[Seayakbill]

With all of the other  activities and vacations the summer months are not the best time for acquisitions for the railroad. I did stop by the LOTS convention in Omaha last month and picked up a few pieces of rolling stock during our vacation travels.

Anyone else replenishing their layouts with locos or rolling stock for the upcoming winter months ?

My summertime acquisitions

 

[SantaFe158]

I've gotten a few things. Lionel TMCC track inspection car Williams Santa Fe 72' Heavyweight 2 Pack, $22.50 for each car K-Line NYC Heavyweight, also $22.50

[Penny Trains]

I always have my summer projects.  I usually know by mid January what I want to change or add to my Christmas layouts so I try to acquire those pieces by September or October at the latest.  Usually it's "that building I didn't have time to do" or some tinplate that needs refinishing and is "better done in warm weather outdoors".  But sometimes it's about adding new sections or capabilities to my holiday layouts.  Like the year I added S gauge to my Plasticville layout or G scale to my Standard Gauge, that sort of thing.  Thius summer it's been finding 5 tin cars to build my own monorail and adding cars to my James Gang set so it can pull the Santa Fe and Disneyland RR! 

For me summertime is when I do most of my work!  It's the winter months when I get to sit back and rest! 

Becky

[rtraincollector]

Heres what I have gotten over the summer

 

The NYC PB-1 by Williams and the 2 Reefer cars also Williams

Then I bought this PA-1 and PB-1 Lionel

And then I bought This NYC RPO and Combo car by MTH there 18" each

 

 

 

[11th Street]

Figure October York is time enough for the fire sales to hit the toy train hobby.

Right now too few consumer retailers have gotten the Wall Street memo.

[jocli156]

Williams NYC 60' Madison set . Cars are 14 inches each. Plus new bottle of MTH vanilla scented smoke fluid. I had to buy more after my clumsy self knocked the other bottle down on the concrete floor