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

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The RPO has delivered a new Demonstrator to town. #100 of the GP7's

You can't demonstrate very well with just one, so it's joining it's sister #300

HUMMM! Wonder were #200 is?

 

[Rico]

I picked these up on Kijiji from a fellow in Winnipeg.
Can't find any info on them other than they were originally given to Amsted employees and that other types of cars are out there.
I should probably have not broke the seals on the boxes but come on, you know I gotta run them!

 

[Alcomotive]

The RPO has delivered a new Demonstrator to town. #100 of the GP7's
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You can't demonstrate very well with just one, so it's joining it's sister #300
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HUMMM! Wonder were #200 is?

I have these locomotives! Great runners! I have 100 & 200 I think...Will post later.

 

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Rico, I like the color of the 2019.

 

[Alcomotive]

RPO call!

The USPS came by today when I was at work. Dropped off 2 packages! Amazing!

The (2) building structures came in!

Waiting on 5 more structures!


Also the other package was a Atlas boxcar.... Atlas 20001092 Trainman Missouri Pacific ACF box car #367097

I have a few more rolling stock coming as well. I got this for 9 bucks plus 5 dollar shipping.....right up my alley for the UP roster.

Peace

 

[Alcomotive]

The RPO has delivered a new Demonstrator to town. #100 of the GP7's
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You can't demonstrate very well with just one, so it's joining it's sister #300
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HUMMM! Wonder were #200 is?

Yup I have #100 & 200......

 

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James, I have some GP7's in the GN livery of same make & model, with sound decoders in them. Some of my favorite motors to run......

 

[troyphoto]

The Terrain Tutor's Book arrived today

For those of you not familiar with Mel Bose, he's a chap out of the UK who creates awesome scenery boards and tables for miniature table-top wargaming. He's learned the craft by spending hours a week watching both gamer and model railroad hobbyists videos, chatting with the MRR gents and ladies at the clubs etc. The two hobbies have long overlapped in this area, and Mel is great at the craft.

The two hobbies, MRR and Miniature Wargaming, overlap in our love of realistic detailed scenery.

Mel has built a comprehensive how-to tome that covers almost everything either type of hobbyist could want to learn. The book is MOSTLY geared to the gamer - BUT the principles are the same for the scenery. It's only when Mel is chatting about how to base your rock formations to be sturdy enough to store between gaming sessions that the MRR hobbyist might tune out...

Here's a sample of some of the pages:

This was a kickstarter project, and the gamers ate it up! They blew the KS out and then some.

It will be available via retail soon. Here's the latests from the KS organizer:

I have spoken with our distributors in the US and we have set a "street date" of January 29th, 2021, for Terrain Essentials. This is the date it will be available in your local game stores here in the US, and most likely for the UK, Europe, and possibly other areas of the world (fingers crossed, Canada). We wanted to make sure that we had the time to make sure the book could first get into the hands of all the Terrainiacs that have supported us in this project so far. So, if you have friends who are now interested in getting a copy of Terrain Essentials, please ask them to pre-order it through their local store, who can order it from Alliance Game Distribtuors or Bridge Distribution in the US and Warlord Games everywhere else.

The Terrain Essentials PDF and the Basing Guide PDF will be available from Ironheart Artisans (ironheartartisans.com) on the same date.

 

[beiland]

I scored another structure building....

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

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

Peace.

I went thru a Typhoon while living in one of those on the edge of a cliff in Okinawan in 1947-48. My father was in the Army corp of engineers. I was 4-5

 

[beiland]

Facebook Purchase Problem

Have any of you purchased something off of Facebook train sites, the try to get a resolution?...or try to revisit the original advertisement to verify that info was incorrect?? VERY DIFFICULT, if even possible. And what if the sellers fails to respond to emails??

I'm far less enthused about using these Facebook sites.

 

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Facebook Purchase Problem

Have any of you purchased something off of Facebook train sites, the try to get a resolution?...or try to revisit the original advertisement to verify that info was incorrect?? VERY DIFFICULT, if even possible. And what if the sellers fails to respond to emails??

I'm far less enthused about using these Facebook sites.

Ya that is a downside on FB Market place etc. but there are some sellers that have rave reviews. I have bought from a guy name Scott Love he sells a huge volume of HO scale supplies. Rolling stock of all varieties and locos. Some structures as well. I have had great experiences with him. It seems everything on FB is word of mouth concept. So do research and don't be shy about asking questions.

 

[CGW121]

I have bought stuff from Scott Love good guy to work with. The ones that are dishonest get called out quick and paypal will work with you. I only spend what I can afford to lose. The only site that has a good record to me is Amazon. Back to Facebook the dishonest ones do not last very long.
Mike

 

[CM-Fan]

Fed Ex dropped this off today. Hot Wire Foam Factory Pro 4 kit, four tools, and the adjustable heat control. This will come in handy shaping the mountains on my future layout and my other hobby - Halloween Props.

 

[Alcomotive]

I ordered this today and should have it in about a week....this will be the Big Stones Aggregate Company.

Walthers Cornerstone HO Scale Bulk Transfer Conveyors & Office #933-3519

 

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I also got me this tanker for JR Fuels Co..... should also be about a week before I get it.

Tanker Trailer HO SCALE 187 TONKIN REPLICAS PROPANE COMPRESSED GAS TANK TRAILER #94955

 

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More orders for the RPO coming!

So I picked up a few more things from evil bay. I snagged new old stock Roundhouse 60' Bulkhead flat cars.

RoundHouse 60’ BULKHEAD FLAT CAR. 1302 BURLINGTON NORTHERN Road # 621761 (already have #621760 & #621763 which is cool that there were different road numbers during that time)

RoundHouse 60’ BULKHEAD FLAT CAR. 1306 SSW COTTON BELT Road # 88325

RoundHouse 60’ BULKHEAD FLAT CAR. 1319 LONGVIEW PORTLAND & NORTHERN Road # 61050

I will probably get these in a week or so. I am looking forward to getting these in my fleet of bulkhead cars I already have. This will now bring up to 19 of these cars which are all Roundhouse new old stock. All of them different road names and road numbers. I actually have 3 of BN and 3 UP in different road numbers which is awesome. I do like the details on these cars for the price. I paid 12 bucks each for them so not bad. 4.50 on shipping for each car too.

I can live with that. I will add of course kadees and metal wheel sets.

That is it for now. I will share my other structure orders as they come in.

Peace.

 

[NYC_George]

I just installed a few switches so close to my control panel that I decided not to use tortoise's but maybe go with a push rod system.
I'll let you know how it works out?
George

 

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George...how do you like the Blue Points?
I had bought one just to test it to see how it worked and all. I loved the short crisp throw of it, but didn't like how fiddley it was to hook up to the terminals---or the cost.....

 

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I like getting as close to prototypical as I can, the second FA-2 unit finally made it to the door step. Life-Like said (of course they did, ) that these units normally ran in an AA, ABA, ABBA consist. Well, now I can run the first two arrangements.....

 

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I'm thinking Covid prompted this.....I had never seen IA in this strength before at Wal-Fart.