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

[DakotaLove39]

Got one more BN loco in the mail today. I think I'm done collecting Hill lines power for now.

 

[Alcomotive]

I bought this manifest of Rock Island cars from a fellow from Illinois. Very nice detail for the $. I should have it next week via USPS.

One of them (the white one) has the W&OV recording marks.... WARREN & OUACHITA VALLEY RAILWAY that was bought by Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW)

Pretty cool! I actual have one of the cars no #34, there were actually 100 cars with this scheme and recording marks with the W&OV.

 

[DakotaLove39]

Fresh out of the box from ScaleTrains today

 

[Alcomotive]

Fresh out of the box from ScaleTrains today
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What is the difference between the rivet counter box and the operator box?

 

[DakotaLove39]

What is the difference between the rivet counter box and the operator box?

One's Penn Central and two are BN.

Details. Rivet Counter models are loaded with fine details and are more expensive. Operator is the economy line, less detailed but cheaper.

 

[Rico]

So, um, rivets!

 

[TLOC]

Good morning from Wisconsin. These showed up Thursday.

2 more covers to make the total 3 for my gondola. From Macrailproducts.com

Proto photo is uncredited, sorry. I am using it for weathering and these are best photos of the covers in action. These are hauling dirty dirt from a landfill site to be sterilized

TomO

 

[GeeTee]

Ordered Sun and just received today (Tues) afternoon from Amazon. (6 ) 2700K - 3000K 2Watt under cabinet lights with RF remote control , should have these installed in a few days in N'Pip. Dimmable in 10% increment static mode and 8 dynamic "modes" (flashing ,fade out .,..ect). ~$26 delivered

I 'll mount these under the second level , I am curious to see how well these work.

 

[IronBeltKen]

This showed up beside my mailbox today (wouldn't fit inside):

Hmmm, wonder what's in it? Let's have a look...

Oboy, it's my new Lokprogrammer!

Here's all the pieces. Now I just gotta figure out how to hook it up and, more importantly, how to use the thing!

 

[DakotaLove39]

Not really a mail call, but there's a model train store in New Brighton, MN, that I don't go to very often despite it being two miles from my club. Well, I stopped in there Thursday and looked around. I mostly needed hardware for club (screws and kadee washers), but the ole man had these two RTR cars for $20. Not bad price for BNIB in today's world.

 

[twforeman]

I haven't posted in this thread for a while. I've picked up some misc stuff here and there but on Thursday I received a couple of packages with this in it:



A three-pack of GN WFE cars, a couple of GN hoppers, an NP double-door box car and because I'm a glutton for punishment I picked up the Tichy 120 T wrecker crane and tender.

Lots of parts in that crane kit.

 

[2Tracks]

I picked up the Tichy 120 T wrecker crane and tender.

So far I've assembled the boom car, because, yeah, your right, there is a train load of parts in the crane kit.
Nice Haul!

 

[twforeman]

So far I've assembled the boom car, because, yeah, your right, there is a train load of parts in the crane kit.
Nice Haul!

I started building the crane yesterday. It's a lot of parts, but it assembles nicely. Just pay careful attention to the instructions and it's all good.

 

[TLOC]

Good morning. These 2 followed me home Tuesday from the LHS curbside pickup. That qualifies in my eyes, hell it’s Covid season blame it on that.

They are in the 91% IPA bag hopefully getting stripped. While they barely get into my modeling era they will become my first rolling stock for my freelance RR. The Wisconsin River Valley and Terminal RR finally is going to use the decal sheets I had made up for rolling stock.

I purchased both for $12.00 each and the Elder Grain is definitely an Atlas product. I was told they both were Atlas but the Spencerville and Elgin definitely is not Atlas but I have given up searching to learnn what it is. They both have Kadee 5’s until I can get more 146’s and the gray one has steel wheels. I think it’s a IMRR model.

Wear your mask
TomO

 

[2Tracks]

hell it’s Covid season blame it on that

And what is NOT blamed on Covid now?
Tom, nice cars.....the Spencerville& Elgin, looks to have some decent detail to it.....
Interesting to note the different sizes of stirrup steps between the two.....

 

[Alcomotive]

So these showed up this past Saturday by USPS..... as mentioned I found (2) Timken tank cars with different road numbers so now my tally is up to 4 Timken tank cars that are all different road numbers!

I also acquired another 40 foot ASAB boxcar in a different road number #1315.

All are Athearn kits.....

I got a kick out of seeing these vintage yellow Athearn boxes the tank cars came in. Pretty cool with the different color ends for the description on the boxes.

 

[santafewillie]

While it will be a while, September-October maybe, I pre-ordered four more Santa Fe Dash9-44CW's this past weekend, from ScaleTrains. Some other railroads called them 44CW-9. These will fit right in with the first two that I purchased from their initial run. These are the Rivet Counter line, but are only DCC ready since I run only DC. Improvements over the first run include front, rear and side walkway lights, which will not make any difference to me since I only run in the daytime.

 

[twforeman]

I haven't posted in here for a while, but I got a box of box cars today in the mail.



The Sky Blue car is a little past my era with it's repaint date of 2-69, but I like the color and the Rocky herald. I have a few other GN cars that are post 1959 so I'll probably set up a static display.

 

[TLOC]

Hello. Starting to open the boxes that showed up while I was gone.

these again are Macrailproducts.com

I will be posting more items this week

TomO

 

[twforeman]

Got another handful of things over the past couple of days. Another GN book:


And a Stewart Hobbies FT A/B set and a Tsunami DCC controller and speaker to put in the A unit.