BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
The exchange kills us for sureUnfortunately with exchange, shipping and fees I managed to get a hundred dollar loco for a little under two hundred!
The exchange kills us for sureUnfortunately with exchange, shipping and fees I managed to get a hundred dollar loco for a little under two hundred!
So first off, I saw this and thought of you, Alcomotive. I spent the last month in Atlanta for some work-related training and during my down time I hit up a couple local hobby shops. This is at Blue Ox Hobbies, in Roswell, GA. The entire building is actually an antiques store, with about a quarter of the floor space devoted to model train stuff. They had a small layout running, and lo and behold there was an ASAB boxcar in the consist.
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Yesterday, I was able to attend the Twin Cities Model Railroad Show & Sale in Minneapolis, the first show I've attended since the pandemic started. There was a decent crowd when I was there in the morning, not too crowded but plenty of people and kids. I was glad to see many vendors I recognized from past shows back, and there were some decent deals to be had. I'm not supposed to be buying equipment right now, but I couldn't help myself. You know, support the hobby economy right?
Forgive me for the glare in the picture, I don't have time to unbox these right now. The Golden West cars were from a vendor with a table full of Athearn cars starting at $10 each, they fit in well with my 80s-90s SP theme. The trailers are becoming a vicious circle for me-- earlier this year I picked up a few Walthers G85 flatcars to add to my intermodal fleet. Only afterward did I discover that almost none of my trailers would fit, they were too long. So I started shopping for 40' trailers, bought a few here and there, forgot what I had bought already, and soon I had more trailers than flatcars. So I had to get more flatcars. Then more trailers again... Anyway, I managed to negotiate down the price of the trailers depicted here slightly, and I also got both Atlas Master Line flats for $50 total. Finally on the left are a two-car set of Burlington Mail-Express cars. I have a CBQ mail train that I put together a few years ago, so I thought these would add length to it nicely. Plus they've been out of production for several years now. But guess what? I got home, and turns out I have those exact car numbers already. So someday I guess I'll be renumbering them...
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How do you like those G-85 flats? I'm working on my own TOFC train for the 1970's era and interested in some of those Walther's flats. Someone told me they were too light.
One more post for tonight...
then I got a long awaited wish list locomotive in Western Pacific scheme. This is an Athearn RTR Western Pacific GP35 that someone put a decoder in for DCC/Sound. I sniped this at the last minute for $68.69 plus $15.50 shipping so total was 85.18 not to shabby for that!
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I'm guessing this locomotive started life at the Ace Hardware in Berkeley, CA? That's the one Ace I'm familiar with that has a decent model railroad and hobby section.
Funny you mentioned that....I took a look at the price tag again.....ACE as you said lo' behold surprise surprise surprise! Golly I didn't pay attention to that..!
At first no other information was given to me. So thanks for pointing that out! I will post on my other thread when I get it on the layout and try out all the operations lighting etc & sounds. That's cool though that ACE hardware is selling trains.....
Christmas in July may be over but lawdy, lawdy.... I got big freight package coming in....cannot wait for it!