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Primavw Feb 4, 2012

  1. DCESharkman

    DCESharkman TrainBoard Member

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    Looks like a banner day! Can't wait to see the turntable in action!
     
  2. Ashley_SD45T-2

    Ashley_SD45T-2 TrainBoard Member

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    I my self got a new ATSF B40-8 for $54.22 shipped on ebay.
     
  3. mtntrainman

    mtntrainman TrainBoard Supporter

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    Was out working on it all today. I just gotta shim the Unitrack UP...I honestly thought I would have to shim the table....LOL. Need a few more pieces of track to put off the table....but its getting there :)

    BTW...the Train Master is running great...thnxs :) :)
     
  4. sandro schaer

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    received 6 more amtrak f40ph. guess they will be disassembled and sandblasted within 48 hours. then painted in via rail colors as usual.

    so far i custom painted approx 60 via f40ph, sold 40 of them.
     
  5. unclesaxman09

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    I have wanted one of these ever since I was 8 yrs old (now 21). I caught it online for $70 and just had to have it. Now I just need to get the passenger consist that she pulled :)
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  6. Randy Stahl

    Randy Stahl TrainBoard Supporter

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    You got a pretty good deal on it !!, There are many sources here if you want help finding and building the N&W consists, I'd like to see your efforts !!

    Randy
     
  7. Keith

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    Just need to get the aux tender for it now!
    I happen to have one too. As well as the locomotive.
    Drop a PM, if interested in extra tender?
    Any unreasonable offer considered!
     
  8. paperkite

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    I got a NP FT A&B unit for $95 NIB #6003 with the Gold strip paint over black.. and a two Truck Shay NIB for $ 229 ( but dunt tell my wife )... I just missed JPIII's sale for the Climax .. durn it, or I would have bought the Climax - giving me one of each for my logging road . If no one gets the climax , I can get it NOV 1..... Not DCC but thats ok , Can't wait to get the two Shays on the layout ... that'll be AWESOME .... with the NP FT on the main haulin' the freight to Seattle !!! and me grinning from ear to ear .. I like this hobby !!!!!
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  9. SPsteam

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    Picked up an Atlas shay the other day for $110 at the LHS. It was listed as used, but I doubt it had ever left the box.
     
  10. SD75I

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    I picked up a 3 pk of first run Athearn UTLX Ethanol tank cars for $30. I saw some go on ebay for $125.


    dave t
     
  11. VIARailfan

    VIARailfan TrainBoard Member

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    Picked up 4 sets of Kato stacks and 3 CN ES44-DCs
     
  12. Robbert

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    just bought 2 Z scale locos.
    i'm going to convert them to a Nn3 shay and a porter

    Robbert
     
  13. WPZephyrFan

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    I just picked up another Japanese prototype passenger loco, a JNR EF58.

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  14. unclesaxman09

    unclesaxman09 TrainBoard Member

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    Got these in the mail today. The book is locomotive servicing terminals, the new micro-trains N&W stock car with wooden cattle ramp, and 5 jars of paint (engine black, aged concrete, railroad tie brown, walnut wash and mahogany wash)
     
  15. Kenneth L. Anthony

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    This weekend, I went to see UP steamer #844 in Houston. In the souvenir car, I found a pin in the form of a railroad crossing with wig-wag that looked like it might be N scale. I bought two of them for $5 each. The back of the jewelry pin has two pins which would have to be cut off. The jewelry pin crossing wigwags front and back, are shown at right.

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    I compare them here with the railroad crossing signal with non-working flashing lights from their inexpensive carded set- one at left as it came, and to the right of that, one with the mast and light housings painted flat black to appear less “plasticky.”

    Dimensions
    Height- ground to center of crossing “X”: Pin 9.5 N scale feet (Bachmann 9.5 N feet)
    Height- ground to top of crossing “X”: Pin 12.5 N feet (Bachmann 10.5 N feet)
    Width across mast: Pin 6 N inches (Bachmann 6 N inches)
    Boards of crossing “X”: Pin 12 N inches (Bachmann 9 N inches)
    Overall height: Pin 17.5 N feet (Bachmann 10.75 N feet)

    I thought this wagwag might be appropriate for a scene in which the rail mainline to my island seaport comes off the end of a causeway from the mainland and immediately crosses a seawall with a beachfront entertainment district. The distracted little N scale people need protection from the big powerful N scale trains, AND the scene also would attract the attention of layout viewers so it needs essential details.
    Someday I might buy and working crossing signals with detection circuits, etc. but the wigwag pins might do for a while.
     
  16. paperkite

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    Nice score Kenneth! I got some of the smaller cross bucks and did the pole/s in gun metal grey , left the signs white and blacked out the bases and added ballast over, now to find a road to put them on ..

    Also bought a Vanderbuilt Tender for my MP 4-6-2 Pacific , it is running good but with all the grief I've heard about MP pick ups on the stock tender, for $22 I could not resist .. It has New Haven on it but I will patch it out and put my RR livery on it PWW&RB. These are so cool looking !!!
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  17. railnut49

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    Hi Pete;

    I was just wondering how much stuff you had to have to be able to say, "enough"?
     
  18. paperkite

    paperkite TrainBoard Member

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    Not sure about Pete , but " Altho one may not have enough rr stuff ... one can never have too many" . :teeth:
     
  19. SpectreOne3

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    Picked up a few rock molds from the LHS

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  20. WPZephyrFan

    WPZephyrFan TrainBoard Member

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    I was dating a girl a few years ago and she asked me why I had so many model trains. I replied, "I'm not done yet."
     

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