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Whats the newest engine or piece of rolling stick you have?

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Posted by dinwitty on Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:21 PM
newest? Oldest?

I just picked up a couple of old South Shore steeple cab lokies.

Didnt expect buying them but sudden buy and they were available. source wont be revealed....8-D
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Posted by CP5415 on Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:50 PM
My newest piece of rolling stock is an Accurail Ashley Drew & Northern Centerfloew hopper.
My newest locomotives (I bought them at the same time) are as follows

Athearn RTR Maroon Canadian Pacific F7A & F7B
Athearn RTR SOO SD60
Proto 2000 Canadian Pacific S3.

Gordon

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Posted by mustanggt on Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:38 PM
My newest loco is a Kato Amtrak F40PH. My newest cars are an athearn UP 57' reefer, athearn Genesis 60 foot box, and a tank car. Now I need to save up for a digitrax zephyr. Layout construction is halted since the Atlas Master console stopped working correctly[:(]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:56 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by uspscsx

If you mean newest in the sense of when you received it, mine is a Walthers CSX 65' Mill Gondola kit. Arriving soon is a pair of custom Southern Railway 50' TOFC flats with 3 custom Southern trailers. The cars are kitbashed from Athearn flatcars to represent Southern's TOFC flats converted from boxcar chassis.


And might I add I have just completed the kit[:)].
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:47 PM
Newest locomotive would be three Kato Amtrak F40PH's. Rolling stock is 5 six-packs of Walthers Bethlehem three bay hoppers.
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Posted by BRVRR on Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:07 PM
Here's a picture.

Its supposed to be worth a thousand words. The loco is an Athearn BB AMD 103. I bought the cars, Baggage, Lounge, Coach and a MH Boxcar,one at a time, on sale at LHSs. I have about $55-60 in the whole she-bang. Oh yeah, another $20 for the Digitrax DH 163 decoder in the loco. More photos and info on my website.

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:03 PM
Locomotive - Atlas Trainmaster - Pennsy
Rolling stock - Intermountain ACF 3 bay hopper - NYC.
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Posted by Darth Santa Fe on Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:44 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by JoeyM7899

Also picked up a blue box KCS AC4400 that i will make a huge project out of. it needs a P2K motor, nickle silver wheels, plastic handrails, GE stewerable trucks, painting decaling ect....


A P2K motor won't actually improve it's performance all that much. I tried a P2K motor in my Athearn DASH 9 (which has an AC4400 chassis) and it didn't perform much different. Mostly just lower voltage control and a little less noise. Nickel silver wheels would be an improvement.

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Posted by West Coast S on Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:06 PM
I recently aquired the the following items: one Ambroid Russell Snow Plow kit and three American Flyer semi-scale 60ft. Harriman baggage cars for conversion to scale.

Dave
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, July 28, 2005 7:00 PM
Yesterday,I got a P2K EMD SW8/800/900 (as listed on box). It is in EMD demo colors #800.
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Posted by icmr on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:59 PM
My newest engine would be an ATHEARN ILLINOIS CENTRAL SD70 #1006.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:31 PM
Mine is not new. Three TOFC Flatcars from Athearn that I just finished rebuilding and installing LL 33" metal wheels.

I suppose washing the dust off, replacing wore out parts and painting with fresh paint qualifies a 10 year old model set as new.

I am slowly working on a walthers heavyweight set.
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Posted by cbq9911a on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:19 PM
On the O 3-rail side the newest engine is the Copper Range 0-6-0T from Lionel.

On the HO side the newest engine is a custom painted TP&W RS-11.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:14 PM
newest engines i just picked up are P2K KCS SD60, and a P2K SD60m BNSF. Also picked up a blue box KCS AC4400 that i will make a huge project out of. it needs a P2K motor, nickle silver wheels, plastic handrails, GE stewerable trucks, painting decaling ect.... dont know why i bought it, its just gonna go up in the "to do" shelf, which is full of stuff already, lol. my newest rolling stock are 2 new Atlas 17,600 gal. tank cars, these are impressive indeed, great detail.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:09 PM
Mine would be a CNW S3 and a CNW Caboose. in HO scale. In N scale i got 3 Ore cars.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:45 PM
If you mean newest in the sense of when you received it, mine is a Walthers CSX 65' Mill Gondola kit. Arriving soon is a pair of custom Southern Railway 50' TOFC flats with 3 custom Southern trailers. The cars are kitbashed from Athearn flatcars to represent Southern's TOFC flats converted from boxcar chassis.
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Posted by Vampire on Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:16 PM
I have the Athearn RTR SD45T-2 in the SP/Cotton Belt Bicentennial paint scheme. Got the matching caboose too. Also picked up lots of rolling stock at the National Train Show in Cincy. Haven't even run much of it yet.

Now if I would just receive my Con-Cor Pioneer Zephyr...
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Posted by twhite on Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:11 PM
Newest is my Con-Cor "Pioneer Zephyr", which I got two days ago. Cute little thing--runs like a dream. But I'm waiting--AND WAITING--for the BLI Santa Fe 2-10-2 to come out (it's been over a year), and after that--well, I'll just look for some more second-hand Yellowstones. One can NEVER have too many Yellowstones, LOL!
Tom [:P][:P]
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Posted by Hawks05 on Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:06 PM
Newest engine is a P2K UP GP38-2 that I got this past weekend at a show. My newest piece of rolling stock is, well: 2 sets of Walthers TTX well cars, Walthers 72' centerbeam cars, 3 Accurail Railbox boxcars, an Accurail ADM ACF hopper, and an Accurail MRL ACF hopper.

I'm trying to figure out what my next purchase will be. Something off of Ebay and most likely a GP38-2 again, or GP60 although I already have 4 GP60s so another GP38-2 wouldn't be all that bad. I love the BNSF color, but which one.
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Posted by Amtrk14 on Thursday, July 28, 2005 3:01 PM
2 Four packs of the Rivarossi Union Pacific Modern Excursion Cars.

Sean
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Posted by randybc2003 on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:51 PM
My newest loco is a Bachman Spectrum LIGHT MOUNTAIN. I re-lettered it for [:O] SANTA FE's 3700 series. [:o)] I have been told it looks "neat." I think it looks very good pulling my SANTA FE heavyweights coaches from Bachman, Athern, & Walthers. One of these days I may get some pictures posted.[:)]
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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:45 PM
My newest piece of equipment is an N scale Kato EF-58 electric in JNR Blue.

Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:35 PM
Bachmann Spectrum 3 truck Shay. I haven't run it yet, but it looks cool sittin still.
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Posted by CraigN on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:32 PM
I bought an N Scale Kato SD 70 mac in Conrail colors last week. Now I need to buy another because having only one just isn't right.
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Posted by retsignalmtr on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:30 PM
a couple of weeks ago i bought two ho atlas NYC gp40's with dcc. today i just received two ho atlas conrail sd35's with dcc that i bought off ebay. i can only run them at my club as i usually model in n scale.
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Posted by loathar on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:16 PM
I don't know if this qualifies as rolling "stick" but I just got a bunch of John Deere 1/87 scale equipment that I've turned into flat car loads.Bright shiney green tractors on old beat up flat cars.[^]
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:15 PM
My newest (meaning most recent acquisition) is a P1K RS2 (Southern) and an Accurail 3 Bay covered hopper.

My newest locomotive (meaning when the prototype was built) is a NS GP60.

Bob DeWoody
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Posted by bpickering on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:11 PM
Four-pack Rivarossi heavyweight passenger set. Got from Walthers on clearance, arrived badly damaged (after FIVE WEEKS shipping!), but the return/re-ship took just over a week. Looks good this time- try to get them on the tracks in the next couple of nights.

Brian Pickering
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Posted by Darth Santa Fe on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:06 PM
My newest engine is a Bachmann 8 wheel drive F9A from eBay. Actually it's 35 years old but it's new to me. My newest rolling stock is an Athearn single dome tank car and an Accurail Reefer.

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Posted by Rotorranch on Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:06 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by mark_in_utah

An Athearn DD-40 Dual-motor off of ebay.

Mark in Utah


Which one did you get Mark? I've been watching those. [8D]

Rotor

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