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

[Sirfoldalot]

Weird about the 10pk of Intermountain wheels. Isn't that 2-1/2 cars worth.

yup ...I plan to buy a 100 pak on ebay from yankeedabbler though.
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That's great - then you will have enough for 27-1/2 car emplacements?

 

[Alcomotive]

Found a guy selling his dad's estate. The kicker? Display case full of Milwaukee Road! Here's what I picked out.
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Nicely done custom paint, custom decal of MILW 2150, the 100,000th PS-1 boxcar built by Pullman Standard. This earned the car special gold paint. Mine is a little off, but we'll call it old. I'll eventually need to put the MILW's billboard lettering in that big empty space. Why no factory makes these in HO scale is beyond me. The thing would sell, hard.
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Sorry, the photos aren't the greatest. I'll try and get some glamour shots on a layout this weekend. Again nicely painted and decaled. These cars will (eventually) be hauled by my F6A Hudson. I'm going for a heavyweight Olympian.

The two passenger cars have metal sides with a wood underbody. Solid metal truck frames and such. Any ideas on maker? definitely must be old, but the paint and decals are custom. I think I'll have to change over to Walthers trucks, as these ones look like trouble.

That car really is a sharp looking car! I wouldn't mind having one of those in my fleet. I can't believe this isn't more main stream. Funny though I didn't notice the "bill board" until you mentioned it lol. Nice find! It looks to be manufactured by Roundhouse Inc. as far as the stock car body goes. The custom paint & decals are awesome!

 

[DakotaLove39]

By the way does any one have an interest in ho scale TankTrain cars? One of my LHS has about 30 of them all different road #s in cosignments all nice detail kits by Roundhouse. He is asking 10 dollars each NIB. I can send you the LHS info if you are interested.

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let me know!

For clarification, your store has Roundhouse ones as in blue box, or do you mean Athearn/Genesis?

 

[IronBeltKen]

These arrived in the Brown "RPO car" this afternoon:

(Bottom 4-panel image is from ScaleSoundSystems.com website)

 

[Alcomotive]

For clarification, your store has Roundhouse ones as in blue box, or do you mean Athearn/Genesis?

The LHS has them in Consignment yes at 10 bucks each. They are made by Roundhouse Inc. and they are unassembled New In Box kits. (old stock) I can go tomorrow at lunch and take a few pictures and post. The boxes they are in look like these...(these are not the actual ones) some of the boxes have the grey ends and not the yellow ends.

 

[DakotaLove39]

These arrived in the Brown "RPO car" this afternoon:

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(Bottom 4-panel image is from ScaleSoundSystems.com website)

I need to get on the ScaleSoundSystems boat! I have sound-equipped locos which I would like to improve on. My stock Athearn Genesis has ESU Loksound and good effects, but the stock speaker really sucks.

 

[Alcomotive]

I met a guy that was selling some ho scale stuff on ebay this past Monday. It turned out he was local not far from where I work. So we arranged a meet up as I purchased these 3 cars from him. Not too shabby! His name is Al. I also invited him to this website to see if he would like to join us. We will see if he does. Anyhow here are my purchases:

Athearn model #5079 MR Milwaukee 50' DD RailBox car road #156018 with Kadees

next up....

Athearn model #398 Bev-Bel MILW Milwaukee Railbox road number #50890

and last one.....

Athearn model #5537 MP MOPAC Missouri Pacific 50' Single Door Box Car road number #367080

 

[Alcomotive]

That or one four axle and one six axle car I guess, a twelve pack makes more sense.

James, do the caboose throws come with instructions?
Seeing people push them right to the ground is a pet peeve of mine.

Rico

I didn't forget your question....I just got around to checking for the instructions tonight. It looks as though it has information on the back of the package on the card the bag was stapled to.

 

[Rico]

Ah thanx James, that cleared something up for me on the pins!
Still, they don’t tell you to stop pushing down when the lever is horizontal or the housing will spread open.
Like I said earlier I hate seeing them pushed right to the ground, makes throwing them harder too when you need to pry them back up.
I have a pile somewhere in my to-go pile.

 

[DakotaLove39]

Some guy on Facebook was selling two GN SD45's at $70/each with DCC installed! A fellow clubber and myself each bought one. He gets the Big Sky #418, I get the 'Simplified' #417.

 

[Alcomotive]

Well here is a first for me.....

I have never owned a kit from Collectors Corner Model before or even seen one. So I saw this and well of course I had to have it. At 8 bucks I couldn't go wrong. It's an average detailed kit not too bad. This came in today via USPS all the way from California

Collectors Corner Model HO 40' Box Car Trains Union Pacific #2006

 

[Alcomotive]

I got my doors in for repairing another 50' box car that were missing doors that I got on the cheap!

 

[Alcomotive]

Snagged these as they came in today via USPS. I showed them off on JR's UPPR thread.

Roundhouse Rock Island Route Rock road number CNW #718103 50' PS Rib side Box Car model #1907

Roundhouse Rio Grande D&RGW 50' Box Car road number #590430 Custom paint and decals

Roundhouse Rio Grande D&RGW 50' Box Car road number #51353 Custom paint and decals

These pictures were from the ebay seller....

I got all 3 of these for 24 bucks plus 8 for shipping. Pretty good deal I think.

 

[Alcomotive]

Post Man dropped these off. These are very old Atlas “O” cars I enjoy collecting these some are built and some you have to build but are easy and fun to build.
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Wow! I had no idea Bev Bel did O gauge too! Awesome!

 

[ianacole]

Snagged these as they came in today via USPS. I showed them off on JR's UPPR thread.

Roundhouse Rock Island Route Rock road number CNW #718103 50' PS Rib side Box Car model #1907

Roundhouse Rio Grande D&RGW 50' Box Car road number #590430 Custom paint and decals

Roundhouse Rio Grande D&RGW 50' Box Car road number #51353 Custom paint and decals

These pictures were from the ebay seller....

I got all 3 of these for 24 bucks plus 8 for shipping. Pretty good deal I think.


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Those D&RGW cars are cool! Had not seen those before. Something new to add to the watch list - if, being custom, they can be found. Thanks!

 

[Alcomotive]

Those D&RGW cars are cool! Had not seen those before. Something new to add to the watch list - if, being custom, they can be found. Thanks!

I tell ya I debated the purchase of them. The images of them kept gnawing at me to buy them. I did research and asked around if they were prototypical but thus far it considered custom/fantasy scheme. I really am glad I bought them! Very unique scheme. I am still on the fence on placing a UP shield on them or maybe just one of them. For now they are considered on my layout.... as heritage schemes

 

[Alcomotive]

Well as mentioned this morning in the coffee shop my package for the UP transfer caboose #13737 arrived today and I must say I am very please with this model. This is my first Bluford Model product I have owned and it is well worth the $ spent although not very expensive at all!

So here it is!

It even came with the generator that gets mounted on the truck/bearing hub on the side of the truck assembly.

After looking for the MOPAC version I managed to order one of those as well MOPAC #13087 from Spring Creek Model Trains hobby shop.

I should get by the end of next week.

I will post some pics of UP #13737 on JR's UPRR thread.....

 

[DakotaLove39]

Hard for me to not absolutely rave about this. Do you guys know the researcher/author John Luecke? He's written and co-written a bunch of books about railroads in Minnesota. The guy just recently completed a project of indexing 4,300 railroad maps from all over Minnesota. So for $35 I got a huge cache of Milwaukee, Rock, MN&S, GN, NP, C&NW, and other railroad's track geometry information. These things are incredible.



Also, since TrucTrain55 keeps posting his new Lionel stuff, I also got a Lionel piece! I've been wanting a caboose to go with my #2338 GP7 and I finally got one. This was a special caboose done for a Lionel club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

 

[DakotaLove39]

That’s a nice set up! Keep posting that O scale stuff.

I have a few more pieces I'd like to get, but not a lot. I'm not an O-gauge or Lionel guy, I got these purely because they say Milwaukee Road on them. I know two guys who are building O-gauge home layouts, though, so I hope to bring my train there sometime.

 

[Alcomotive]

My railroad ties came in today. Plenty of them and nicely weathered and dirty