For all of You Train Lovers

[Photon440]

In the last 4 years MRR prices on a lot of stuff have gone through the roof.

OTOH, I went to a show last weekend (tis the season) and scored some interesting things.

Picked up a scale "wheel lathe" for my roundhouse. Never seen one before.

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..and a Rivarossi pass car for 10 bucks. Vendors have jacked those up and are trying to justify prices similar to new Walthers/BLI/Rapido cars in the close to/over 100 dollar range.

The wheel lathe in the shop where I worked. Picture from the mid 1980s.

 

[YY1]

The wheel lathe in the shop where I worked. Picture from the mid 1980s.
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I figured you, specifically, might appreciate my post.

 

[YY1]

Looks like they did a fairly credible job replicating that in miniature.

Likely a transition era version, though.

Is that small thing in the middle of mine, the tool holder?

 

[YY1]

Very cool!! My problem is I'm constantly finding new looks and ideas everyday. Never ending... LOL

Yeah, that's a huge issue.

I finally narrowed my scope to 1948 PRR.

Xenia line ran near my house.
More readily available prototype correct models.
Can run steam (including some real oddballs and some from other roads) and almost all available first gen diesels (again including some real oddballs).

I do still have an itch to model a branch of FCEN, modern or 1990's that runs near my current house, which looks tailor made for a scale layout.

 

[Hey-O]

Yeah, that's a huge issue.

I finally narrowed my scope to 1948 PRR.

Xenia line ran near my house.
More readily available prototype correct models.
Can run steam (including some real oddballs and some from other roads) and almost all available first gen diesels (again including some real oddballs).

I do still have an itch to model a branch of FCEN, modern or 1990's that runs near my current house, which looks tailor made for a scale layout.

I'm 40's and 50's. I love small town America in that time frame. My buildings range from turn of the century to the late fifties. Cars and trucks are all bought and obviously same period. I've found some nice train cars that are newer than the 50's, but I like them and bought them anyway. I have a dummy Santa Fe 4015 Locomotive that will sit on a wooden trestle bridge I'll be building with some rolling stock I bought just for the trestle. I bought a switcher and another DC for fun, but I only have one DCC locomotive. I'm about the town, people and life in small town America. Scenery, billboards, stores, bars and boats. I have a ton of that I've bought. A fire lookout tower will sit on top of the one hilltops. I chose the smoky mountains, not the rocky mountain look. This is a few of the cars and trucks.

 

[DeltaV]

I really like Oxford diecast HO cars. I grabbed up a handful of a later era. B-bodies and a Pontiac GTO.

 

[DeltaV]

 

[DeltaV]

Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad (NCNGRR)

Mixed passenger and freight train on the Bear River bridge in 1895.

 

[DeltaV]

Grapevine, Texas

 

[DeltaV]

Texas and Pacific's " Sunshine Special" train No. 2, eastbound, headed by Engine No. 909, a 900 class Mountain type 4-8-2 locomotive, rolls through Texas countryside near Forney on a summer day in 1929. The Texas and Pacific Railway had five locomotives of the 900 class which were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1928 and these went into service in 1929. They were Numbers 905, 906, 907, 908, and 909.

 

[YY1]

I'm 40's and 50's. I love small town America in that time frame. My buildings range from turn of the century to the late fifties. Cars and trucks are all bought and obviously same period. I've found some nice train cars that are newer than the 50's, but I like them and bought them anyway. I have a dummy Santa Fe 4015 Locomotive that will sit on a wooden trestle bridge I'll be building with some rolling stock I bought just for the trestle. I bought a switcher and another DC for fun, but I only have one DCC locomotive. I'm about the town, people and life in small town America. Scenery, billboards, stores, bars and boats. I have a ton of that I've bought. A fire lookout tower will sit on top of the one hilltops. I chose the smoky mountains, not the rocky mountain look. This is a few of the cars and trucks.
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Fortunately, I bought 95% of my stuff prior to the incredible increases that have happened in the past few years.

All I got to do is lay the track (again)build a few structures, wire the signals, and do the scenery.

Every now and then, something new comes out that I have to have, but fortunately they are few. The narrow scope helps.

Last new thing I bought was a red one of these

 

[YY1]

I see Oxford has some new tooling.

 

[YY1]

My mom had this car 1:1 in this color!

...but it had 8 lug wheels.

389 4 barrel.

 

[YY1]

Oooooh, the Kennedy assassination continental!