As a Lincolnshire resident most of my life I used to enjoy spotting trips down south to see the SR N's, U's and S15's, etc. Quite distinctive. Alan www.andersley.co.uk
NO locos for me. I had bought a Roco Swedish electric a while back. It was missing a couple peices. I think the owner had it only as a display unit so did not ever attach them. One hard to find piece was a coupler mount, finally found a seller in australia who was willing to sell me a spare. I paid about 4 times the value of the thing, but Roco couldn't source the part for me for some reason. I had no other options. And then while peering at ebay a .99 cent auction item showed up. I figured what the hell, I'll bit .99 and somehow managed to win it. It's probably 1960's manufacture, it should go really nicely on my toy train set.
I really try to limit my purchases of things and try to keep myself focused on actual layout time over just being a consumer. And then you look at ebay and someone has posted a bunch of stuff with .99 cent starting bids and you just watch it for a couple days. So that's what I did. And it was a huge lot of freight cars for near nothing and my anti spending money rule went out the window. Up first: This is a Austrian railways intermodal car. Usually a Roco goes new for around 60.00 I got it for 15.50 plus 5 shipping. How could I resist right? There was another one with containers, but I had to limit my spending. Wish I would have had 100.00 to play with as there was a lot of cool stuff cheap. Second: A Roco interfrigo car. One would see this interchanged all over europe. It would go for around 30.00 and I got it for 4.04 + 5.00 shipping. I really like waiting and watching for the deals. I figure 1/3 price when you include the shipping on both items. I'm still feeling elated over this find. I am just linking the ebay pictures, so I expect after a while these links will go bad. I just couldn't resist sharing my victory ASAP.
Well done that man! You use the same method as me. Sometimes price goes way too high, but occasionally things slip through the net and I pick up a bargain. Lovely feeling when that happens. Alan www.andersley.co.uk
Thanks Alan, as a former european railway modeler you understand more than anyone just how expensive new models can be. It really took everything I had to keep from going crazy as there was a lot of stuff by the same seller going fairly cheaply. I would love to have a long intermodal train but at 60 to 80 a crack, the trick is to enjoy what you have.
Not building anything proto, this Locomotive caught my eye. $45 DCC equipped NIB New York Central Shark Nose
Geeky, do you have any idea of the specifics behind that signal? It looks like two signals in one, and that alone is interesting (and the price was definately right!)
It is a toy train signal. It has press down spring connectors for wires on the top side of the component. Only the Two main lights red and green work, the others are dummy signals. It looks to be a model from the 60's or 70's judging by the box. The dummy part of the signal is explained at the bottom of this page here: https://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/railway/germaust.htm Look for the header: The Zusatzsignal Other pics of the same model: http://up.picr.de/6981763fcy.jpg http://up.picr.de/6981764feq.jpg Oh yeah, german prototype. But I mix and match my train stuff these days as I am literally trying to make a model railroad one might have found in a train mag in 1974. Those obsessed with scale modelling may not understand my newfound passion for HO scale Tin plating, or is that plastic plating? ha ha
Yes, the most recent run has a plug and 1.5 v bulbs, a big improvement. but the critical part is Athearn 90616 that can be used to retrofit older bluebox and RTR GP38-2s and 40-2s This is a big help, because any hardwire install has more room for error (ask me how I know), and it has a better platform for installing lights in the older units. And yes, I'm working on weather!
Nice! I had(well, still have) 2 SBD GP38-2s and 1 SBD GP40-2. Sadly, they are only in pics now. One, is painted in old CSX scheme, and the other(after being turned in a Road Slug) and the GP40-2 are in CSX YN3 paint. JMS.
