Trains: No! Railroad related: Yes. Currently collection of Rio Grande lapel pins. Top ro9w: Retirement pins, from 3-10 yrs, 14, 22, 28-32, 35 and 45 year pins. Mainline through the Rockies. Several sizes. Every one slightly different. Color and lettering font. 20th anniversary pin, Rio Grande Scenic dome class, and a DRGW/UP/SP Royal Gorge/ennessee Pass last passenger run June 1997 Which I THINK, not sure, has something to do with the UP running the 844 that way back then. Anjd a LaVeta Pass Route on the way. as well as a TGV pin, from the UK.
I was disappointed in the painting along with the packaging. The artwork colors looked spot on but the painted cars don’t match it. Should have 2 different color grays, one dark gray for the roof and eagle gray for the sides.
What I am really waiting for are the pre-orders of the Kato Amtrak 50th Anniversary locomotives to come in, I ordered all of them with ESU LokSound decoders installed. I also pre ordered several Scale Trains Rivet counter locomotives as well.
I placed those orders a long time ago. I figure the loss of all the IM locomotives, I am still -400 on that and that is downsized enough
A Kato SD45 at the last train show. And wouldn't you know it, it has the same road number as one I already have.
Just ordered a two pack of Tomytec forklifts from MWMRR. They look really nice and I want to use one of them for my Farmer's Coop and the other for my oil well supply company. I don't have any Tomytec products so I'm hoping these fit my scale well, I've heard some Japanese N scale products are a slightly different scale? These are the larger industrial type so I think they should be fine. I also purchased a Micro-trains 40' New Haven boxcar from a member here off the TrainBoard Swap Meet. I really like these because they have the 6' door and are really nice to use in grain service on my earlier IC era. The forklifts are for my more modern BNSF era. Ralph
A lot (but not all) of Japanese items are 1/150. I’m in Japan but model American stuff-I’ve got Kato container handling equipment and Tomytec and Kato cars mixed right in with American (Atlas, River Point Station) and European (Busch, Viking) manufacturers’ cars. Can’t tell a difference -especially not from normal viewing distance Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Finally found an Atlas Rail America GP-38. I began lettering it for the local road: Columbia Gorge Western. Rail Graphics made the decals several years ago.
Made an offer, it was accepted, so waitiing for this beauty to arrive. https://www.ebay.com/itm/284904987462
My depression over not purchasing - Atlas Gold S-4 ATSF and Gold S-4 SP locomotives. I missed these completely, was distracted by family health issues. Anyone know where these might be found?
The gold ones have not been released yet. Atlas only had a partial shipment and they were the DC versions. The decoder equipped/sounds versions have not even left China yet apparently. So you can still likely get these when they eventually get produced/delivered.
Well I got my GS-4's today. They are the non-sound DCC versions, who makes that decoder? I have a fear it is Digitrax.
