Iron Horseman
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I knew what you meant.
Mail Call! Railway Post Office, commonly abbreviated as RPO has rolled in!
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TLOC
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The Wisconsin River Valley and Terminal RR, a shelf layout set in 2015, has received the 1st delivery of Trenton Works 5250 Hoppers from Chinook Lines #CHNK 822529 and Canadian Atlantic Railway #CAR 628148
The cars are distributed by Chris at HomeShops.net in cooperation with Stephen Reeves of CAR and Joe Bohannon of CHNK. IMO another home run by HomeShops.net
Freelance model railroad modelers have never had it this good
The cars are distributed by Chris at HomeShops.net in cooperation with Stephen Reeves of CAR and Joe Bohannon of CHNK. IMO another home run by HomeShops.net
Freelance model railroad modelers have never had it this good
migalyto
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Those are beautiful! I've heard HomeShops mentioned before, but never really looked into them.
Do they make their own rolling stock or use someone else's undecorated models?
NorthBrit
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New arrivals originally ordered through Hatton's.
Two six-wheeled carriages in Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway livery
One First/Third Class and one All First Class
Also an All Third Class carriage in Great Central Railway colours.
Although they are of a generic design I love their size. They do not 'overpower the layout'.
Two six-wheeled carriages in Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway livery
One First/Third Class and one All First Class
Also an All Third Class carriage in Great Central Railway colours.
Although they are of a generic design I love their size. They do not 'overpower the layout'.
TLOC
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Chris at HomeShops works with the manufacturers to develop these cars along with the freelancer. I have freelance cars from Tangent, Rapido, Prairie Shadows, Class One, Aurora and Intermountain via HomeShops.net. These are run on the same schedule the manufacturer is on with the regular released cars but with a limited run for the freelance railroad name. So, all factory finished.
I also have freelance cars from Accurail that are distributed by Patrick Harris of 3 Notch Rail Freelance Trains on FB.
Smudge617
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Nice cars, I would like at least 2 CAR or maybe 3 plus two CHNK hopefully they will still be available in '25.
Iron Horseman
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As I said I am way behind on keeping updated with this thread, but I am going to jump to most current.
Last week Trainworld had an online Live show featuring their Christmas items. I saw this Polar Express 20th anniversary box car. Normally I don't go in for the anniversary sort of things, but I liked the lighting effect in the back lit "BELIEVE" ticket on it. They said they got 100s in and they were flying off the shelves. I went to the site and it showed 10 units left. I thought they always have a free shipping deal over thanksgiving so I'll wait for that. Next morning I looked and they had 7 units left. I thought well, I don't know.... Checked later that day and 5 units left. So I ordered. Sure enough the next day I checked and they were out of stock. Sorry, for the wires, I wanted to light up the "BELIEVE" for the photo, but you can't tell anyway. It also has the tingle sound that the bell in the movie makes. It will become annoying really quickly. Fortunately, there is a switch on the bottom that the sound or the lights can be turned off. I hate that it doesn't have stirrups, but I guess because of there "shorty" nature and the huge wheel flanges it wouldn't make the curves if it had them.
When I purchased it, I needed to have an amount $5 greater than the price of the car. First time I ever wished something cost more! So I shopped around looking for something that cost $5. Couldn't find anything but I did find this car on the "blue plate special" clearance section. It is clearance because it is 2021. But it is cardinals. At the new house we have cardinals everywhere and adopted it as the estate crest. By happen chance 2021 is when we bought the house, so it works out.
Bruette
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Fantastic!
TLOC
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Compulsive buying is something I thought I had stomped out years ago. Forgive me as I have happily failed
I had to walk maybe 200’ last night from the Rosatis pizza place where I placed an order for their great Italian beef while the sandwich, dipped, was made, to the Madison Hobby Stop, my LHS. I’m a sucker for modern reefers as that white is such a great canvas for the graffiti artists/vandals.
This is my 1st one from Walthers as I have Scaletrains, Intermountain, Exactrail and the then BLMA ( now atlas) cars. Not as many finicky fragile details but a well done car that rolls (ST r u reading) super out of the box!
I had to walk maybe 200’ last night from the Rosatis pizza place where I placed an order for their great Italian beef while the sandwich, dipped, was made, to the Madison Hobby Stop, my LHS. I’m a sucker for modern reefers as that white is such a great canvas for the graffiti artists/vandals.
This is my 1st one from Walthers as I have Scaletrains, Intermountain, Exactrail and the then BLMA ( now atlas) cars. Not as many finicky fragile details but a well done car that rolls (ST r u reading) super out of the box!
migalyto
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Very nice car! I wanted to pick some of these up, but have way too many as it is!
Yea, the second run of ST refers don't roll much better than the first!
Cant wait to see what you do with this car at the weathering bench.
Colorado Midland Modeler
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Nice! I've been thinking about acquiring a few myself, what's the minimal radius on one of those?
TLOC
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Yes, there are many models I came home with because they cried buy me. Fun isn’t it?
TLOC
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I didn’t check as my smallest curve is 31” and the smallest switch is a #6. But at 73’ I would think they should easily go through a 24” curve. They look better on bigger
TLOC
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I’ve been working on/off on my remaining 6 ScaleTrain Reefers and they are about as good as I can get them to roll. I’m doing custom graffiti on them and hope down the tracks that will help sell them off.
The Walthers car I purchased last night is a nice car with decent details. The normal Walther’s Mainline car, not great not bad but good enough detailing. Build date on these cars per online sources is 20/20 and they match up decently enough with the pictures. $29.00 LHS discounted price, but today Walthers is running a sale. No I did not compare the $29 I paid with the online Walthers pricing. Surprised I was though that the car # I have is an actual prototype #. The prototype pictures I have though all are 2020 pictures with no tags or graffiti and just a spray of track kick-up. I’ll be checking out other pictures for inspiration. The wheels and trucks have their first weathering colors applied and the body has its 1st and last fade
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