Just got another passenger car for my ever growing collection. I don't have any of these grey coaches and I rode in enough of them as a kid in Italy so it's one of my preferred schemes. Got a deal on it from ebay... well,there is always shipping to be added on, but it was still under 20.00$ Now I am waiting near the door, ready to pounce on the mailman when it shows up.
Most of my “good deal” eBay buys turn out to be just OK. But these two DCC diesels look and run good and just cost $20 including shipping. I did have to replace 3 couplers and 1 coupler clip. They don’t look like my other similar units and the FT-A has people installed. I am assuming they are from some older run of the FT-As. Bob
Just today, I purchased a trio of old Walthers North Shore Interurbans, two coaches and a combine from one of the LHSs.
Those interurbans are beautiful. Be careful or you'll end up making a traction layout. They do run on ridiculously small curves such as a 7" radius. Can I ask what you paid for them?
I'd say they practically gave them to you. Or did a 3 for the price of 1/2 deal at least. Do you have other traction on the layout?
These are actually my first pieces of traction equipment. I bought them as they were very appealing not only in looks but price as well.
My latest purchases and my first for a very long time is this pair. One of my favourite liveries on a boxcar but will need some light weathering. This is an Accurail car. The other is this covered hopper, I do not know what make it is but the detail is far above my old Intermountian one.
I haven't bought any freight cars for over 10 years when I bought a few covered hoppers from ConCor like the Milwaukee Road in the keft of the first picture. While on a road trip, visiting another model railroader, we went to a swap meet. As things were winding down and people were putting their items away, I saw this Kadee covered hopper. I offered the owner $25 for it and he took it. I am sure that these cars retail for a lot more, but I could use a few more hoppers. I didn't realize that it has the newer closer to scale couplers until I took it out of the box a few days ago. The end details on the car are really good. I imagine that they will show up a lot better after a bit of weathering. Most of my rolling stock is well over 20 years old, most of them Athearn blue box kits. I thought I had what I needed but this one I couldn't pass up.
Picked this up off evilbay for $31 including shipping. Handrail split in a couple places, but no biggie. I think I did alright. Fit in nicely among the other 5 GP30'S on the layout. Sent from my LG-P930 using Tapatalk 2
Living 2 hours from the nearest hobby shop keeps me from spending too much. So when I do go I'm like a kid in a candy store. This last trip I picked up 3 Walthers tank cars and a Con Cor gondola. These will soon be weathered and added to the roster.
