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

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NYC_George said:
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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I've got a few of the similar BullFrog switch machines, which are constructed of laser-cut wood. One tip (if you aren't aware already), if you need pushrod equipment, check out the RC airplane section of hobby stores. They have lots of pushrod accessories, connectors, etc. I've actually found the larger diameter sleeved plastic pushrods work better over distance, versus the thin metal ones. However you can't bend angles into them like the metal rods.
 
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.....

Jerry
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I haven't got a chance to install them yet Jerry. To busy with my bridge projects but I'll get to it and give you a full report.
George
 
Ok, as mentioned previously, I'm not supposed to be adding equipment right now but...I saw Hiawatha Hobby had some Athearn Genesis SP cabooses on clearance. So I picked up two, a C-50-7 and a C-50-9, with two different lettering styles.

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skyliner said:
Ok, as mentioned previously, I'm not supposed to be adding equipment right now but...I saw Hiawatha Hobby had some Athearn Genesis SP cabooses on clearance. So I picked up two, a C-50-7 and a C-50-9, with two different lettering styles.

Those look great. I see you got them on the clearance sale page at Hiawatha. I ordered some of the GP40-2w’s on Thursday off that page. Can’t beat the pricing. only 70 miles from Hiawatha but had them mail them out.

Enjoy
TomO

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Mail call! I got a few more box cars from evil bay....

1st up....

North Louisiana and Gulf road number #5001 manufacturer unknown but I liked it. It needs a bit of work before it is released to active duty. I got it on the cheap. I need to replace the coupler boxes, add metal wheels, add 2 new stirrups that were broken off, add weight, add a new brake wheel and do a little touch of paint and weathering.

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RPO rolled in this morning....

50 ft. FMC car The Bay Line ASAB road #7182

She needs some minor work. I ordered a bag full of ladder/step stirrups as these seem to be the most recent issues I found on buying used boxcars. So this one will need them as well as the other (2) I received yesterday. This one will also need a new coupler box and kadee coupler. It's quite simple to do. I don't mind buying these fixer uppers at all when you pay under 8 bucks for them. A plus for me as well ;) not to mention it is a road number I do not have! This one is a Walthers car.....you can see the etched step above the coupler....nice details for under 8 bucks!

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Another RPO to post!

I stopped at the LHS on the way home from work tonight. I picked (2) 50' boxcars by Roundhouse New in the box old stock and one was built with an EOTD! Each cost 10 bucks! Nice little haul I think! I was surprised by the EOTD. Both were in the consignment section of the shop.

Roundhouse 50' Boxcar 1272 road number #610 Tidewater & Southern

I will put this together this weekend and change out the wheel sets to metal wheels and add kadee couplers.

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Roundhouse 50' Boxcar 1981 Dbl Door Western Pacific road number #381 with an EOTD

I need to add the brake wheel and change out the wheel sets to metal and add kadee couplers. I may paint the EOTD yellow as well not sure yet.


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So my Micro Engineering bridge track showed up today. $10.50 for a 3 ft section. Compared to the Walther's bridge track $39.95. It's a good alternative. It doesn't come all together like the Walther's track you have to install the inner guard rails. You also have to bend the ends of inner rails. No big deal with that. I don't like the brown ties. I'll have to paint them black. The normal color of bridge track. I ordered two because my bridge alley project in longer than 3 feet. Now if bought the Walther's product I being paying $80.00 instead of $20.00.

George

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My last order of bulk head flat cars came in today. All are by Roundhouse Products and the RR Union Pacific!

I was actually surprised that when I found these on evil bay that one, they were all together on one bid from the seller and two I was the only one to bid on these. The awesome thing about it was they ALL have different road numbers that I didn't already have. The other thing that surprised me was I have not seen Twin packs by Roundhouse Inc. packaged this way before for these cars. Have you guys seen these packaged this way before? This got me excited on bidding on them because of the different road numbers. I think these are great cars as I do have a quite a few of these now. For the money I think these cars have more than enough details for my layout and purpose. Not gonna say I am done on acquiring these types of cars. I am actually looking for the Atlas models that have the short bulkhead flat cars which are very hard to find.

So these are the numbers I got.

#215508 (UP Yellow)
#215611 (UP Yellow)
#215645 (UP Yellow)
#215678 (UP Yellow)
#215680 (UP Yellow)
#282151 (Brown)


Here are some pictures. I will be assembling these this weekend. This weekend coming up will be single digit weather. Cold Cold Cold. I will stay inside to work on these and other cars I got in the few weeks.

Here are the pics:

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Rico said:
Very nice James!
My all time favourite cars are the roundhouse flats and accurail covered hoppers above all!
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Thanks Rico!

I sometimes have a hard time spending or even thinking of paying over $50.00 for one flat car like Tangent or Scale trains or whatever. I feel these cars are sufficient and are fantastic! I am guilty however to splurge on an unusual car or pay whatever the cost but I really try to avoid that. It has to be a rare situation etc.

For these 6 cars I paid right at 100 bucks. So @ $16.67 a car not to mention NIB and all different road numbers. I think it was a great deal.

These cars are just great and and are good runners with a few mods like adding Kadees and metal wheel sets. A little weathering and adding a load as well puts it all into being an excellent rail car for the layout!

I have a number of Accurail cars as well, mostly 40' box cars some where in the neighborhood of 50 (all different road numbers) of them mostly Union Pacific. I used these behind my steamers etc. When I belonged to a club down in Florida I would pull them all the time. They have great details too.
 
Alco, You always mentioned that your layout is temporary and in the above pics I see layouts going down the sides of your shop; do you have several layouts by chance if you don't mind me asking ?
 
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Alco, You always mentioned that your layout is temporary and in the above pics I see layouts going down the sides of your shop; do you have several layouts by chance if you don't mind me asking ?
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lol good eye.....;)

Those last 2 pictures are actually from the seller whom I bought the cars from.

Yes it is true, my current layout is temporary. This layout is my 4th layout. I had 2 layouts in Arkansas. (1 was 10x14 the other was 18x12) In Florida I just had a shelf layout no scenery 10x2. I am hopeful that I may be able to build my garage addition this spring. We shall see what happens with the economy and COVID deal. I already have 2 different sets of construction documents/plans and will have to re-bid them.
 
It was good eyes and thank you, mainly as you know watching your layout as it is so close in size to mine. I have been learning a lot from all you as you know. I hope that your garage comes for sure, but also hope that prices drop a little as they have gone up quite a bit this year due to Covid for sure.
 


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