riogrande5761Southern Pacific modernized 40' boxcars with the yellow diagonal stripe doors
Tangent models are at the top of my fav list, also picked up one of those SP 40' boxcars, nice, can't wait to make it look like it's been in service for 17 years.
Btw, hope the Tangent NP PS-1 Hy cube you bought from me on the HO Swap is still riding your rails. Still kinda kick myself on that one, but the next best thing to enjoying a nice boxcar is knowing a fellow modeler is enjoying it.
Regards, Peter
Hi TF,
Last month's goodie was the Brekina 'Striped Tomato'
month before was the Artitec hot rod
Thanks & regards, Peter
I've had my one-and-only BL-2, a Life-Like Proto engine, for about twenty years now. I receltly gave it an overhaul plus a sound decoder and SSS speaker.
Finally, I picked up a companion caboose, one of the new Rapido NE cabooses to pair with it:
WM_NE GN XM-Rapido by Edmund, on Flickr
Why not throw in a colorful GN box car, too. Especially one with a goat on it!
GN_XM Rapido by Edmund, on Flickr
The caboose is a very well done model:
WM_NE-Rapido by Edmund, on Flickr
Thank you, Ed
For me it was a PK2 S3 switcher in CNR livery. I had been looking for one for several years and finally scored for $75 US. I don't think it had ever been run but after a lubrication and decoder install it looks and runs great.
CN Charlie
Hi maxman,
Yes. It only cost me about $900 for lawyer's fees! I still don't know if he needs a work permit or not. If he does, the deal is off. A work permit would cost around $4000.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
I "found" a several pieces of rolling stock I've wanted for a long time. Thank goodness for favorited searches on Ebay. These were custom run items for a model railroad club that are basically impossible to find.
Mike
hon30critter 1. I signed a contract with professional model railway builder Peter Lloyd-Lee to help me do the track laying and the wiring on my layout. Dave
1. I signed a contract with professional model railway builder Peter Lloyd-Lee to help me do the track laying and the wiring on my layout.
Have you found a way to smuggle him into the country yet?
riogrande5761modernized 40' boxcars with the yellow diagonal stripe doors
-Matt
Returning to model railroading after 40 years and taking unconscionable liberties with the SP&S, Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads in the '40s and '50s.
At a swap meet in October I found these two GN chip cars and this SP&S MOW tool car (the rich green outside-braced box behind them) to go with them on a work train. Like I need any more rolling stock, sheesh.
EDIT: Oh, also, that canoe-themed NP RS-3 whose nose you can just see sticking into the picture on the right? That's a yellow-box Atlas Kato RS-3, practically new, that I picked up for $15 at the same show. The guy just wanted to get rid of stuff. I almost always haggle, but it was such a crazy good price I didn't even try to talk him down further.
Track fiddlerDid you find any Good Goodies for yourself this last year?
I didn't buy very much in the way of rolling stock but I sure did indulge myself!
1. I signed a contract with professional model railway builder Peter Lloyd-Lee to help me do the track laying and the wiring on my layout. I may get him to do the benchwork for the yard too because I am becoming more and more incapable of doing things like that every day.
2. I started the process of turning my junk filled garage into a proper train room with a new epoxy floor, all new storage cabinets and a new three part lighting scheme.
3. I started the process of replacing all my non-LokSound decoders with LokSound V5s. Currently I have about 15 decoders awaiting installation, and I will need at least that many more to complete the task.
That's a lot of money, but I hate having it sit in investments that I don't need the income from. I'm going to enjoy it while I can!
Too many to list, but have added a number of Tangent models during the past year, the latest are the Southern Pacific modernized 40' boxcars with the yellow diagonal stripe doors. The SP rebuilt thousands in the late 1960's for lumber service and only when they bought substantial new 50' double door FMC boxcars, as well as PC&F boxcars, did that fleet of 40' boxcars begin to quickly dwindle by the close of the 1970's. Been wanting a few of them for a long time and Tangent finally delivered.
https://www.tangentscalemodels.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/23060-3.4-1200-logo.jpg
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Everyday is like goodie day for me. I'm thankful for all that I'm given (and work for!).
Hard to choose just one but one of the 'neat' things I picked up this year was this Broadway Limited Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson:
NYC_Commodore-3 by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Not trains, but we now have a connection to a really good fishing boat that brings us extremely fresh right off the boat scallops. Best we've ever had. These come from the ocean right off shore. Our senior cat Snowflake takes a great interest in these.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good evening
The spirit of giving is giving, and I'm sure you all already have, or will. Lately is this last year, as they go by so quickly.
Did you find any Good Goodies for yourself this last year?
I'll catch up with you guys a bit later, after a few of Your shares of show and tell here...Thanks
TF