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Colonel Mar 29, 2013

  1. rye

    rye TrainBoard Member

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    New hopper was in the shop for inspection today, under the watchful eye of the conductor of the Big Pine Railway!

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  2. rye

    rye TrainBoard Member

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    The InterMountain cars are soooo detailed but the wheels rub on the bottom of the hoppers on every turn! Anyone else had this issue?

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  3. RailMix

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    Picked these up off ebay this week. Really planned on getting these down the road a little bit, but there was a deal on them, so I grabbed them.

    First, while nothing says 50's like the pink Chrysler I picked up a while ago, nothing says 60's quite like this metallic aqua Ford Galaxie.

    The 55 Chevy dump truck, on the other hand, has a different story behind it. Macomb county, Michigan is located on the north side of Detroit, so I investigated to see if it was the least bit prototypical. After all, most counties in Michigan have a road commission, but I discovered that Macomb, in fact, has a road department. I found a picture of a modern county truck. The door emblem isn't quite the same, but still very similar to the model. From an online record of the Macomb county board of supervisors from 1957, I discovered that Macomb county dealt with local Chevrolet dealers. This truck is looking more and more plausible. (Maybe their trucks were larger than this, but possibly not. I think this one is a 2 ton.) The other thing I discovered was a complete surprise. Scrolling down the list of members, I saw a familiar name and adress. My uncle had been a member of the board and had had a part in purchasing trucks, so now I had to have one. Now I've just got to figure out how it could have found its way this far north.

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  4. Todd Hackett

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    Geesh! Forgot about posting my 'finds' here. LHS is 150 miles ( Spokane ), no more in Kalispell - the small guy next to the Uno Office has been gone for a year or so. To bad. Billings looks to be good, but that is a road trip. Livingston and Billings maybe later into the Spring/Summer.
    Anyway:
    Boxcars; 13 of them:

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    Lifelike 2-8-8-2 with DCC
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    $250 for the lot.
    Valley Trains and Models - just of Barker and Sprague. Smaller store but has *lots* of stuff.

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  5. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Hello my lovely enchantress :love:...

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    Intermountain SD40-2W, bought today at the OVAR model train sale in Ottawa. She followed me home...

    Along for the ride were several freight cars including plenty of kits to keep me busy.
     
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  6. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    This is not ringing any bells for me. ???

    Please check your PMs. :)
     
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  7. Todd Hackett

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    Went to an Estate Sale yesterday. Steve Wesoloski passed away recently and his wife asked Evergreen Railroad Modelers to do a sale for her. Sale was held in their new building 3014 N Flora Road in the Valley.

    Got to the sale 5 to noon and went right in. 8 or 10 tables filled with rolling stock and power. Steve's era was later than what I look for so I actually did not buy power. Had mostly dash units, BNSF, couple MRL's, ATSF ... etc. All DCC and DCC/Sound; mostly Genesis, Kato and Atlas. Prices were $50 for DCC only, 75 DCC/Sound. All were in great shape that I could see. As a note, usually when you go to these things, they start prices at almost retail. Not in this case. I did almost pull the trigger on a SW1500 ( NP ) and if the wife wasn't with me I probably would have bought 4 or 5 of the later power anywho and let y'all fight over them. I don't think that anything was weathered.

    There were boxes and boxes of well cars, covered gons, center beams, containers, trucks and trailers. There were not any structures which was kinda surprising, or track/rail/switches.

    I ended up with 43 GN/NP box's with a few other roads. Got them for $3.50 each - so $150 for the works. All have Kaydee's and metal wheels and from what I can tell so far, unique numbers.

    If I had been by myself, I would have waited until just before they shut it down @ 1600 ( I think ) and would have gone back in as I still had an additional $150 burning a hole in my pocket. Oh well. Train money came from my savings jar - Huge wine carafe about 3/4 full of change. 40Lbs worth. Took to the bank Friday and got $300 out of it.

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  8. Skyraider

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    Been converting narrow gauge into standard gauge. The hobby store I deal with when I visit family in the DFW metroplex is selling my HOn3 on consignment. They only keep 15% when you take the sales out in stock---consignment purchases included, and keep 20% if you take cash. This AT&SF 3700 class 4-8-2 is one of the locomotives I've been looking for, and they sold it to me for a portion of the narrow gauge they are selling for me. It looks new in the box and runs like a watch.

    There are two things about the Sunset steam locomotives of the late '80's and early '90's that could be better: more weight and painted tender trucks instead of blackened ones. They rest of the model is painted, so why did they blacken the tender trucks? the ATSF on the cabside will be removed and correct silver lettering will be applied (white lettering on AT&SF and Southern Pacific steam was a pretty common mistake by brass importers. Even the Hallmark Super Crown freight steam locomotives had white lettering).

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  9. in2tech

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    And people say pocket change doesn't add up :) Yeah at close you know if they further discounted? Was it one day? You got a really nice haul it looks like?
     
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  10. Todd Hackett

    Todd Hackett TrainBoard Member

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    in2tech: Ya, change does add up - think that it was a 5 year process though.

    The sale was for 4 hours, I have no idea of what was still there after I left. Wife wanted to do CostCo and North 40. I almost went back as it was on the way home, but we were both tired and hungry. Still had 150 miles to do for home. I suspect that offers less than mine were accepted as I kept hearing 'it needs to be gone'. Steve's wife was supportive of his 'habit' but like most did not know what to do with the stuff when he passed. Talked with a couple of the guys and they thought she was pretty well off $$$ wise so it didn't much matter with pricing, just wanted it gone. I specifically asked if there were any cars with his railroad name on them so it would continue to live on my layout, nope.

    My usual MO at train shows ( or sales ) is to go in at/near the start of it, get stuff I can't live without and pay the freight. Then if one day show, go back an hour or so before close and make offers as I have found that most do not want to pack it all back up and take it home. Last time I went to River City Modelers show a couple of years ago, I got a 4-8-8-4 DCC/Sound for under 200 at the start, then 40 boxcars for $3 each at the end; Kaydee's, metal wheels and unique numbers. Guess that it evened out and was a good haul.

    And this one was also a good haul, well at least I was happy with it! The wife just looks at me giving me 'that blonde look' and shakes her head. She really has no concept of what I am attempting to do. I have tried to explain to her that I have planned for 16 20Ft trains in staging. At 25/30 cars each that adds up fast.

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  11. Jeff Vass

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    I don't know about the rest of you, but for me track cleaning sucks. I have been humming and hawing about a CMX Clean Machine for a while now and finally decided to pull the trigger. I'll be putting it to work this weekend.

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  12. gjslsffan

    gjslsffan Staff Member

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    That looks like a high quality car there.
     
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  13. Jeff Vass

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    I forgot about this. I was in Calgary the other day and picked up this Rapido caboose. The detail on this is amazing.

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  14. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Rapido is wicked good on details. I have a GMD-1 from them and it's beautifully detailed.

    You made a good purchase!(y)
     
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  15. Jeff Vass

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    This thing is built like a tank! All brass, metal wheels, and Kadee couplers. I tried it out last night and it works as good as it looks.
     
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  16. Skyraider

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    More of the "turning narrow gauge turned into standard gauge" program. This was part of a fairly large swap. These are the good old Balboa cars. They are good, solid brass cars, but don't have the detail modern cars do. They also don't have the high price tag modern stuff has. The complete train is 6 factory painted brass passenger cars plus two Proto 2000 E6 locomotives. Balboa imported extra coaches for these, so I will keep my eyes open for an extra coach or two.

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  17. dti406

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    I received my 35' and 40' trailers from Rapido last week, I placed one on one of my Rapido Flats I received previously. I will be running some of the 35' trailers on flats behind my NKP Berkshires!!!

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  18. MichaelClyde

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    Has anyone seen/used these before? Are they something that was 3-D printed? Would think it much easier on couplers and they simply attach to any existing rail . . lol I have an offer to save a whole .10C per but don't want to do any "assembly required".

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  19. Skyraider

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    Two cabooses and an F3...all painted and detailed by gjslsffan here on the forum.

    The AT&SF caboose with the yellow cupola is one that was for local or assigned service by the Santa Fe. The Frisco / QA&P caboose was the last caboose on the last revenue run on the QA&P. The power that day was supplied by GP-15 #107.

    The F3 was also super detailed, painted and lightly weathered by gjslsffan.

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  20. rye

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    Picked up a new track cleaning car and some manual switches to get rid of the awfully ugly stock atlas switches.

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