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

[Alcomotive]

Well as I mentioned in the coffee shop I have a bit of a photo dump to do for 3 weeks of accumulation delivered by various pack mules.....

1st up my second MP MOW transfer caboose in this scheme....now I have 2 road numbers! Bluford Shops does great models.



Here is where I posted the other one that I have.....

A new beginning...JRs UPRR.

pretty dang cool! Can't wait to get the MOW cabby.....

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This is my first ever DCC mechanical reefer by Athearn Genesis. I got a decent pricce for it as I mentioned in the coffee shop. I will pop it on the layout and then post pic in the JR's UPPR thread later.




So this is the other reefer I mentioned as I saw a prototype that I want to try to copy and have on my layout.

Running Bear's August 2022 Coffee Shop

Good Morning All! 65F in Libby and overcast. Left Memphis the 8th @ about 1600 and got here 0300 this am; 2036 miles according to G.Maps, but probably not the way I went. They did not find us a load to go home with so a rental appeared. Got a Toyletta Rav4 with 41K on it. No idea if it is a 21...

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[Alcomotive]

I also got number 3 of 6 of the release of the SNC Saratoga & Northcreek boxcar.....Still searching for the rest of them. These ran locally and I will run a small train with local loco on my layout from time to time although it doesn't fit my plans but it is my layout!







Hoppers, hoppers and more hoppers....open and covered!

 

[Alcomotive]

continued....more hoppers



So I got 5 of these open hoppers but I will only post one of them all different road numbers....Western-UP #10828, #10940, #10830, #10950, #10997

Walthers Mainline 910-6915 34 ft 100-Ton 2-Bay Hopper Western-UP #10828




and I got one of these Golden West hopper.

Walthers Mainline 910-6918 34 ft 100-Ton 2-Bay Hopper Golden West #629630

 

[Alcomotive]

AND from our very own here (on this forum) as some of you know that TomO has been weathering cars etc and selling them. I had the pleasure of purchasing (2) hoppers of his work and will have them on my interchange for GBW and WC on my layout soon. Very nice work by Tom thank you!

I apologize that I have not had time to take them out for pictures but I will soon and put them on the layout and post in JR's UPPR thread at a later date. I assure you the pictures here do not do it justice. Top notch work!

 

[Alcomotive]

I snagged this old Atlas hopper as it is a Cotton Belt and will be severely weathered. I got for undr 20 bucks including shipping soooo couldn't pass it up!





then I got this Intermountain hopper. I must say I am growing quite fond of the cars put out by Intermountain. The details are quite nice and decent!

 

[Alcomotive]

Some of you may remember I got a 3 pack of Rock Island hopper cars by Athearn/Roundhouse series called Operator's Choice and I posted it a few weeks ago, well I found a single pack to add to it.....
so here it is...

I got a few other hoppers but that is enough of that. I have like a dozen more that are mostly Intermountain. I did get this boxcar too....






Lastly some of you may remember a few months back I bought a BIG BOY from a guy that works at the Nevada Railroad Museum etc. I bought the collector edition by Athearn which was a Genesis series with Tsunami 2 etc LEDs all that stuff from him. I also got a few of his heritage passenger cars from a set as well. I recently bought the remaining cars he had and was holding for me as he was working on 2 of them. So soon I will have them sometime next week. This will add 6 more passenger equipment cars to the UP Heritage fleet to be pulled behind the Big Boy or my E8s or SD70M #4015 when that comes in etc.

Here is a sneak peek of them......from his work bench. All have LEDs etc, new diaphrams, couplers etc....other details as well.

City of Portland
Walter Dean
Challenger
Texas Eagle
Combine #6007
Overland #302

 

[TLOC]

AND from our very own here (on this forum) as some of you know that TomO has been weathering cars etc and selling them. I had the pleasure of purchasing (2) hoppers of his work and will have them on my interchange for GBW and WC on my layout soon. Very nice work by Tom thank you!

I apologize that I have not had time to take them out for pictures but I will soon and put them on the layout and post in JR's UPPR thread at a later date. I assure you the pictures here do not do it justice. Top notch work!


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Thank you kind sir! They were fun to do, enjoy them

 

[Alcomotive]

So my last piece of the 1st run Union Pacific Heritage units came in today. #1989 Rio Grande. This unit has additional work done to it. I have yet to run it on the layout tonight to test out all of the bells and whisltes. It has LEDs added at the steps, below the cab and such. It was slightly weathered as well. I am not sure how I feel about the weathering but I may search for another one that is untouched in that manner. I am kinda on the fence about it. This unit has ESU sound system on it as well. Apparently the original Athearn lcomotive came as a DCC ready unit and all the extras were added. I will see how it's first test run goes tonight.

 

[Alcomotive]

So I tested my new to me UP 1989.....lights work etc horn, bell and other sounds....turns out the previous owner left it in a "consist" mode as I could not get it to move or run. So when I get back in there tonight I have to clrear it and try again.





in other news.....



These came in yupper another Bluford Shops transfer caboose!



and last item that came today is my 2nd Athearn Genesis Cabooose! This one has sound! My other one has LEDs and DCC by NCE but no sound.

Athearn Genesis ATHG78319 Union Pacific Caboose CA-8 Late Caboose UP 25566 “Carefully We Roll Along“ Tsunami SoundCar LEDs

 

[rgeiter]

Just bought 2 of these on eBay.(PRR/PC/CR dwarf signal) A guy in the Czech Republic makes them and other really nice signals. No one here in the US makes the PRR dwarf . (HO scale) At $15 each I thought I’d give it a try.
I let you guys know when they arrive.

 

[Alcomotive]

These came in today. I am waiting on 2 hoppers to come in and then I will gather up 6 hoppers to head to Wisconsin.....for some work to be done on them.




Athearn ATH93937 ACF 2970 2 Bay Hopper ACFX 44586 Demonstrator



Athearn ATH89182 Texas Pacific ACF 2970 2 Bay Covered Hopper TP 706092




I thought getting these two were pretty neat! Unique as well. I didn't expect to find a Texas Pacific in the MOPAC shield! Very cool!

The demonstator ACFX hopper is my 2nd one I have obtained but this has a different scheme. There are 3 others schemes that I am aware of that I will be trying to find.


That's it for now.........

 

[Alcomotive]

As promised in the coffee shop......

I did get this Intermountain Pinnacle Series BL2125-01 Branchline Berwick Boxcar Wisconsin Central WC 25123 new old stock. It's pretty nice!






The other cars are Atlas cars.... A little weathering job and these cars will be perfect!

Atlas HO Trainman Hartford & Slocumb 30763 ACF 50'6 Box Car 20 003 884

Atlas HO Trainman Hartford & Slocumb 30743 ACF 50'6 Box Car 20 003 883







Atlas Atlantic & Western 35014 FMC 5077 Single Door Box Car 20 001 539

 

[TLOC]

This unexpectedly arrived today

Another Tangent free lance private road name being sold and distributed by Homeshops.net. The Arkansas Valley is from JoeLoggan’s free lance line that he started 40 years ago. While this car and 3 other road numbers are sold out this came from Joe’s stash.

I know have 5 cars from HomeShopsLLC with more being ordered each month.

 

[Smudge617]

I bit the bullet, and bought this lovely lady, although I did find it strange that the Engineer was separate in the box??, runs very nicely and extremely quiet, the engine sound is great too.

 

[TLOC]

Another postal delivery today.

9 cars from Alcomotive for heavy weathering that I will have a good time with:

3 more cars for myself that I will weather to be sold around Thanksgiving

My wife Terry told me to knock myself out as nothing is planned for this week unless it’s a last minute thing other then the granddaughter turns 11 on the 31st.

I have nothing else on order accept some Rapido preorders for Centerbeam cars I hope to see in late 2023.

 

[Alcomotive]

Last Friday I went to Milepost Hobbies in Amsterdam, NY. https://mileposthobbies.com/


I got a set of 4 gondolas all diferent road numbers and a centerbeam car.

 

[Alcomotive]

Also I received a few snail mail deliveries...

these 2 cars I got off FB market place

Athearn RTR ATH75127 60' Gunderson Double Door Box Car Union Pacific UP 961564

Walthers Mainline 910-2955 60' High Cube Plate F Boxcar Union Pacifc UP 354642

 

[rgeiter]

Sooooo, I saw three LBF Conrail boxcars on eBay and decided to bid. These appeared to be (and are) factory assembled and ready to run. Nice! Love LBF stuff. I got out of the hobby before their RTR stuff hit the market. Well I won all three for 38 bucks. Then it hit me. These numbers look familiar. Well it turns out that the three Hubert’s Conrail boxcars are the exact same thing, numbers and all! I know one company became the other, ( no need to explain. I know the history. ) But running the same numbers? Too funny. Not sure what I want to do with them yet. They’re in the mail so here is a screen shot of what I bought.

 

[TLOC]

Sooooo, I saw three LBF Conrail boxcars on eBay and decided to bid. These appeared to be (and are) factory assembled and ready to run. Nice! Love LBF stuff. I got out of the hobby before their RTR stuff hit the market. Well I won all three for 38 bucks. Then it hit me. These numbers look familiar. Well it turns out that the three Hubert’s Conrail boxcars are the exact same thing, numbers and all! I know one company became the other, ( no need to explain. I know the history. ) But running the same numbers? Too funny. Not sure what I want to do with them yet. They’re in the mail so here is a screen shot of what I bought. View attachment 151004

Same numbers! Don’t feel too bad. Last February I went to the Mad City train show in Madison with my inventory and my list of things I wanted. Found 2 CN gondolas with numbers I didn’t have but guy was too much on the price. Went around the show and there I am back in front of that guy. 10% off and I purchased them. A few days later I am unpacking them in prep to weather. Same damn numbers I already had. The first time around I had the correct numbers and just figured when I picked them up again.

Solution was easy, Greg@mmr who just passed away on 8/3 wrote and said heavier weathering the last 2 digits

 

[rgeiter]

After receiving the cars and giving them a good look, I decided to re-number them. Matching the numbers wasn’t easy. The font LBF used, I could not match. Microscale numbers are close and I’m ok with that. One thing I’m going to redo is the bottom car. The six just didn’t match.