Mail Call! Railway Post Office, commonly abbreviated as RPO has rolled in!

[Alcomotive]

And your waiting for.......?

Santa Claus? St. Nick?

 

[troyphoto]

Made a trip to the LHS today for Scenic cement. Figured I'd need it for ballasting the track. They finally had the rail joiners in they promised to have last week.

In addition, the old gent (I know... that's rather subjective in this crowd) who runs the train section, is hard of hearing, pulls his mask down to talk on the phone, and forgets to pull it up before he invades my personal space (he can't hear well, so he gets REALLY close) showed me the case of N scale rolling stock and locos they just brought over from their other location.

Seems they have two stores here in the fort, but they can't host their in-store events (drone races, etc which cuts down on foot traffic) so they closed one location for the duration and are slowing moving stock and fixtures over. Most of their previously owned stuff was at the store they closed. BUT NOT ANY LONGER! I grabbed the two Empire Builder cars, and one GN Refer car I saw. That should have wiped them out on GN rolling stock, but I'll keep my eyes open for more. All three were marked as "estate sale" - so I know these were previously cherished. I'll give them some more years of attention.

Next visit, I might start picking up some NP and CN rolling stock. Whichever modeler had the stock before seemed to take good care of it. And liked passenger cars. I could almost make a full consist of CN passenger cars. Wonder if they ever ran down on the GN? IIRC, there was a stretch where CN did run on GN, but I'm not sure if it included their passenger stuff. Or, was that the CP?

 

[twforeman]

The RPO was very generous to me today. I got a box with a dozen Accurail freight cars in it! A mix of box cars and reefers.


That should keep me busy during the cold winter months (as if I didn't have anything else to do!)

Also arriving on track 9-3/4 was a new book! Because you can't have enough histories of the Great Northern on your bookshelf!

 

[2Tracks]

This fell out of the RPO car as it whipped by a couple of days ago....what's an A unit with out a B unit?

This is an unpowered B unit, were they removed the motors off of a powered frame and called it good. This thing weighs over 8 ounces. I've got some trimming to do! Anyway, glad to have it, I thought it might take a while to come up with a B unit....

 

[Alcomotive]

RPO delivery is a bit delayed on my end of the line this week.

I am waiting for the arrival of JRs UPPR locomotive order. A GP-39-2 non turbo EMD in the ASAB livery/scheme.

Also waiting for the following cars:

Walthers 932-4117 72' Center Beam Flat Car Union Pacific UP (Opera) - HO - NEW

Athearn Bev-Bel TIMKEN ROLLER FREIGHT #1152 40' Boxcar C-7 wOB - HO - new old stock

Athearn Bev-Bel Green Mountain GMRC #0678 50' ACF OB Boxcar, UPGRADED with weathering and details HO Scale

Also another locomotive is pending on review and most likely the management will approve the order of a well used and worn/weathered SP unit.
It's a Athearn RTR (Ready-To-Roll) SD40R UP Ex-SP 7319 *DC / DCC Ready.*Weathered to match the late prototype.

I will of course show/share these pictures once they arrive.

I have gotten the remaining items for my RS-1 project that will be heading to JTEX as soon as I am able to get to the post.

 

[troyphoto]

Getting ready to start wiring soon. Figured I'd better get edumacated about it...

 

[Alcomotive]

Well one delivery was made today.....

Another Timken car for my Timken distribution center. Athearn Bev-Bel TIMKEN ROLLER FREIGHT #1152 40' Boxcar C-7 wOB - HO - new old stock

I will show it on my JRs UPRR thread.

Still waiting for other items to show up...

 

[CM-Fan]

You all have been busy acquiring some great equipment and other. This morning was like an early Christmas as I opened up all the parcels from this week and the previous. Here are a few of the items.
Model Masterpieces Como 6 stall stone roundhouse and boiler house attachment.
The Rainbow Route - second time owning this fine book, last one was loaned out and never seen again
Some Transportation for the future layout
More Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Gauge - my lovely wife searched out this book and got it for me as I recently learned of it. It is part 2 of the NG&SL articles. I've read and studied the original book numerous times.

 

[skyliner]

I'm not supposed to be acquiring new equipment (more on that at another time), but I couldn't pass up a Cyber Monday deal that caught my attention. BLI F3A+B, CB&Q, DCC and sound. Now, this doesn't quite fit my layout era, but I do have some Burlington rolling stock from that time, for when a retro train passes through. Plus, I was also looking for some backup power for a CB&Q E8 mail train I put together some years ago. Those ran mostly with E-units, but I figure there had to be at least a few times they needed to pull some F's to cover, right?

 

[Alcomotive]

Ah! finally a few more items rolled in today! The RPO does work some mysterious ways under the guise of the USPS....and slow it rolled in at the speed of a squeaky snail.


So 2 boxes appeared on the door step!


1st the long awaited GP-39-2 non turbo EMD in the ASAB livery/scheme. It even came with a little display platform, nothing special.

and the 2nd parcel was my new Walthers 932-4117 72' Center Beam Flat Car Union Pacific UP (Opera window style) to add to the other (4) I have.

I cannot believe I got the centerbeam car for 20 bucks. No one bid on it.

Anyways I have a ton of other orders coming in yet which includes (2) cases of code 83 flex track totaling 150 feet of track. One batch 16 switches and 8 curves 22" radius switches. Also 6 more freight cars which I will share later once they arrive.

Well if ya not busy pay a visit to JRs UPPR thread & debut of the above arrivals.

Peace

 

[Alcomotive]

Future RPO delivery on the way from Florida.

Should arrive by early next week. It was shipped on last Saturday given the storm from the Nor'easter I expect it to be later.

This was listed as a packaged deal so I will make use out of the diesel shop even though I have one. I may use it as a wheel shop or just car repair shop.

The other was what I was looking for. Central gas & supplies. Which will become JR fuels.

 

[TLOC]

Good evening. This arrived this afternoon. I am tired of making my own scratch silos so ordered these to see if I like them. The add-on Silos were a good $22.00 deal, none left or would have purchased more. Sold out at Walthers. That IMO will be a cheap experiment and possible time saver if it works out.

TomO

 

[santafewillie]

I have used the Walther's silos and was pleased with the results. Care must be taken when assembling which is SOP for all of their products.

 

[TLOC]

I have used the Walther's silos and was pleased with the results. Care must be taken when assembling which is SOP for all of their products.

Willie,

Yes sir. Just came out of the trainroom. The silos are together and the instructions say they are a new redesign. But who knows when the redesign was done. Went together very easy as I took my time. I put them together as a standalone set of silos instead of the add-ons they are designed for. These will go well in the older section of the mill. I will go back to building my own. These are 9” tall 65’ towers and the mills I am using as examples are at 106 to 124’ tall. If these come back into stock or you can find some it’s a good buy IMO. A super buy for me at $22.00.

TomO

 

[trailrider]

I'm not supposed to be acquiring new equipment (more on that at another time), but I couldn't pass up a Cyber Monday deal that caught my attention. BLI F3A+B, CB&Q, DCC and sound. Now, this doesn't quite fit my layout era, but I do have some Burlington rolling stock from that time, for when a retro train passes through. Plus, I was also looking for some backup power for a CB&Q E8 mail train I put together some years ago. Those ran mostly with E-units, but I figure there had to be at least a few times they needed to pull some F's to cover, right?

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While 'The Fast Mail" would have used E's primarily, if nothing else was available, or for shorter mail runs, the "Q" certainly would have used F-units. Those F's are real beauties. I'd be drooling over them if I didn't already have a bunch of "graybacks" I've collected over the years, both DC and DCC.
Stay well and safe!
Merry Christmas!

 

[Alcomotive]

USPS has yet made another delivery today.....

Another Timken car for my Timken distribution center. Athearn Bev-Bel TIMKEN ROLLER FREIGHT #1152-2 40' Boxcar - new old stock.

Car #37254TRB

The other one I posted a few days ago was car #37250TRB

So that's gonna help out but still looking for a few more.

 

[2Tracks]

so ordered these to see if I like them.

TomO.....I go by this elevator pretty often...grabbed a few pics for you if you can use them. Served by the BNSF

 

[TLOC]

TomO.....I go by this elevator pretty often...grabbed a few pics for you if you can use them. Served by the BNSF
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Jerry
Thank you, that will go into the terminal’s photo album. Great picture and I wish my non-artistic skills could reproduce that sky. I like what looks to me like irrigation pipe on this side of the tracks. Those 6 yellow and reddish color pallet boxes look interesting and very makeable.

TomO

 

[Alcomotive]

I scored another structure building....

Rix Products HO Scale 24' x 33' Quonset Hut Item #628-0410

I should get it in about 2 weeks from the RPO (USPS). I won it on evil bay this evening.

Peace.

 

[2Tracks]

irrigation pipe

Indeed Tom, irrigation pipe. The farmer is using that area for storage. That strip is farmed, dryland, usually barley. Too much of a hassle to set up water in the strip. (Gotta get it across the road)
And the pallet boxes, I have always seen them there, but not once have I seen them being moved around. I'll have to find out what they're using them for.......