Mail Call! Railway Post Office, commonly abbreviated as RPO has rolled in!
- Thread starter Alcomotive
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BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
As this is the mailbox, my beautiful addition arrived today.
JeffH
Well-Known Member
Wow!
BigGRacing
Aka. Gary Russell
Thanks Jeff,
It was the main priority of my layout with the trains and ship of course and I think the final result by Kim Brumble turned out perfectly!
Much like your mansion, and a lot easier than building it from scratch!
Alcomotive
Grandson of an ALCO Builder
I picked up another Intermountain PWRS set of hoppers for 50 bucks NIB!
This a great find as these are excellent cars!
This a great find as these are excellent cars!
TLOC
Well-Known Member
Iron Horseman
Well-Known Member
Where did you find PWRS cars? I made the mistake of applying for an ID on there website. Yeash. One would have thought I was trying to get the keys to Fort Knox.
Alcomotive
Grandson of an ALCO Builder
Iron Horseman
I currently have 10 sets of PWRS cars. I have been hooked on these cars by Intermountain PWRS. The details are just fantastic. I have been finding some on FB Marketplace mostly. Once in a great while I will find reasonable price ones on ebay. This last set I just posted came from ebay. It was listed incorrectly and I just happened to stumble on it. I too have an ID to PWRS and I get their emails and what not. I have a few things on pre order as well. Tough working with them at first. Most of the stuff they have on their web page is either sold out or pre order. They never have anything in stock. It was explained to me they pre order and sometimes they order extra but sell out everytime. So when you get their email and you see something you like order right away or you will miss out.
Notice on this set I just got and posted above......if you look closely one of the cars (the middle car #717601) came from the factory with grafiti already on it just like the prototype picture on the back of the box......really cool!
Intermountain cars are now one of my favorites considering quality and prices are better than most. Lately Athearn is stepping up their game but so are their prices which sucks. Scale Trains is great but expensive. Anyhow it's a crap shoot everytime when on ebay. I am still looking for 2 bay hoppers but that's about it.
In regards to Scale Trains I would like to get 2 of those finger flat cars they made but they are now running 100 bucks each in today's market and nope I aint gonna pay that. Normally they would be about 45....
Rivet Counter HO Scale BSC F68BH Finger Rack Flatcar, TTJX/Yellow
Introduced in 1969, the Bethlehem Steel Co. (BSC) F68-series of 100-ton, 68’ foot long (over end sills) flats represented a new generation of high-capacity flat cars. Our model is accurately rendered from builder drawings and photos and features road number specific details.
www.scaletrains.com
Good luck!
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Smudge617
Well-Known Member
Worst part of my job is waiting around, so I inevitably end up doing some retail therapy.
Memorial to a railwayman.
Small junk pile.
Wood piles and Cairn.
Trackside Coal/Sand bunker with old rail ties and other miscellaneous items.
Signal Box and interior.
The Construction site I ordered has arrived, sort of, I was out and so missed Mr Postman, so I'll collect that hopefully next Tuesday, but even so every construction site needs workers.
And every rail yard needs road transportation.
Memorial to a railwayman.
Small junk pile.
Wood piles and Cairn.
Trackside Coal/Sand bunker with old rail ties and other miscellaneous items.
Signal Box and interior.
The Construction site I ordered has arrived, sort of, I was out and so missed Mr Postman, so I'll collect that hopefully next Tuesday, but even so every construction site needs workers.
And every rail yard needs road transportation.
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CambriaArea51
Well-Known Member
I'm hoping they run them again. I have enough supplies for 2 more rerod loads.
TLOC
Well-Known Member
I really wasn’t interested in the finger rack cars until I saw the great loads you made. When I went looking the normal shops I go to are out. With NHL hockey about to start instead of making trees during the games I may make a few loads of rebar your way for my bulk flats.
TLOC
Well-Known Member
That Todd will keep you busy. Have fun
Iron Horseman
Well-Known Member
It was just too hard navigating the web site. After my 30 minute indoctrination session I only ever tried to get back in once. I knew I could never remember all that stuff and have never even attemped again.
ctclibby
Well-Known Member
Good Evening!
For those of you that don't partake in the Coffee Shop. Met with Chet today and he decided he wanted to keep all of his Logan Valley in one place instead of breaking it up into onezee and twozee sales. CoastalOverland was able to negotiate a good price for the equipment and will deal with any problems with it. The LVRR was at a little more distance than the other railroads ( NP, SP&S, GN and others) it acquired before the big BN merger, as it was determined that the equipment as pretty serviceable.
First pix is non-LVRR equipment, the 3 truck Shay and the switcher to the right of it are DCC:
We think that the next pix is all of the power and a few cabeese.
And finally, rolling stock, assorted passenger cars along with boom crane and a RDC to boot.
Oops, that F unit should have been in the 1st pix and I think the RDC is LVRR....
Note that almost all of his equipment is weathered .... geesh NOW I have to do my stuff. Anybody have extra time to weather somewhere around 400 cars, 75ish engines?
I am not including the price I paid as Chet may have other stuff for sale and I would not want to seed the negotiations. It is up to him to bring that to light if he chooses. He still has boxes of buildings, trees, people, cars and more rolling stock. When he feels better you may see some in the forsale section.
Later
For those of you that don't partake in the Coffee Shop. Met with Chet today and he decided he wanted to keep all of his Logan Valley in one place instead of breaking it up into onezee and twozee sales. CoastalOverland was able to negotiate a good price for the equipment and will deal with any problems with it. The LVRR was at a little more distance than the other railroads ( NP, SP&S, GN and others) it acquired before the big BN merger, as it was determined that the equipment as pretty serviceable.
First pix is non-LVRR equipment, the 3 truck Shay and the switcher to the right of it are DCC:
We think that the next pix is all of the power and a few cabeese.
And finally, rolling stock, assorted passenger cars along with boom crane and a RDC to boot.
Oops, that F unit should have been in the 1st pix and I think the RDC is LVRR....
Note that almost all of his equipment is weathered .... geesh NOW I have to do my stuff. Anybody have extra time to weather somewhere around 400 cars, 75ish engines?
I am not including the price I paid as Chet may have other stuff for sale and I would not want to seed the negotiations. It is up to him to bring that to light if he chooses. He still has boxes of buildings, trees, people, cars and more rolling stock. When he feels better you may see some in the forsale section.
Later
Iron Horseman
Well-Known Member
Bring us up to date. Is the Logan Valley defunct or just culling the fleet?
rgeiter
Conrail Quality
That’s cool. Haven’t seen that one. Nice!
