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

[TLOC]

The last of I keep promising myself pulpwood cars. Total now is 30 the last arrived USPS per tracking at 7:39pm in the mailbox Sunday. I have no glue why I checked the mailbox this morning being Columbus soon to be Native Day in the USA and the mail isn’t being delivered.

I got 7 more delivered $75. Looks like the steel wheels were replaced by rusty axle plastic wheeled ones. The coupler pockets have no covers or couplers but I can handle these as I took them “as is“. After all 30 are weathered and run I will likely sell 6 off but that will be after xmas.

TomO

 

[2Tracks]

Greg, nice wire job! I like that kind of detail....

 

[2Tracks]

Just think that somewhere on this container ship is someone's long awaited flex-track

If it was flex track destined for me, it would be the 60th ship of the 62 sitting out in the bay!

 

[CambriaArea51]

Got part b of the flat cars today.

 

[2Tracks]

I like the details on these cars, an Intermountain1958 CU FT 2 Bay Hopper. I wanted to add to the fleet, I have the three road numbers for GN, plus a duplicate number, so I went with this UP version.

A lot of detail on them, so you kind of have to watch how you handle it.
An end view..

I also picked up another sand tower kit, manufactured in Oakridge Oregon...well, some time ago it was.....

 

[2Tracks]

After the Athearn/Roundhouse WP 36011 50' FT box car debacle, it would be silly not to get the Accurail car. So I did! Much better!
ACCURAIL car

And the Athearn/Roundhouse car

Anybody like a WP 36011 50' box car?

 

[CHRISTIAN]

Arrived yesterday !

 

[Alcomotive]

My new Athearn Genesis ATHG83152 ES44AC wDCC & Sound, SPBlack Widow #750 came in today. Check it out on JR's UPRR thread! Here is a quick view.....

 

[2Tracks]

Thought I'd try and build up a little inventory while there was still some inventory.

Also picked up a couple more of the Intermountain GN 2bay covered hoppers. These are from their second run, (different series.) Both runs have 6 car numbers. I have 3 numbers from the first run and the these two.

Here are the two series to compare.... first series on the right.

 

[CHRISTIAN]

Arrived this morning (now it's 3:06 PM in France):

 

[TLOC]

Hello. While on vacation I couldn’t resist some model railroading retail therapy. I ordered these on Saturday and they arrived at home in Wisconsin on Monday. I asked my SIL to open all 5 of these for inspection and photos. They look great. They are

Atlas ARMN 64’ trinity reefers. This gives me 6 of Atlas and BLMA reefers for a overall total of 8. The SIL will paint graffiti on these before we get home, I will then add the weathering.

TomO

 

[Alcomotive]

Hello. While on vacation I couldn’t resist some model railroading retail therapy. I ordered these on Saturday and they arrived at home in Wisconsin on Monday. I asked my SIL to open all 5 of these for inspection and photos. They look great. They are View attachment 135124View attachment 135125View attachment 135126View attachment 135127View attachment 135128View attachment 135129 Atlas ARMN 64’ trinity reefers. This gives me 6 of Atlas and BLMA reefers for a overall total of 8. The SIL will paint graffiti on these before we get home, I will then add the weathering.

TomO

Cool that your SIL is involved doing the graffiti! Awesome finds/purchases! I love the ARMN!

 

[TLOC]

Cool that your SIL is involved doing the graffiti! Awesome finds/purchases! I love the ARMN!

James

I wish the SIL shared my love of model railroading. But, he trained as a graphic artist in college even though he never applied for a job in it. He wants to do the grafitti on the now 8 reefers I have and I’m great with that. He did help me along with the son on the latest 3 lane slot car track. He will do the 2 non ARMN first. He and the grandson will run the layout a few times per week while I am gone.
TomO

 

[TLOC]

This is the picture of the real car from Railcarphotos.com, the photographer’s name is on the photo.

I am not a big graffiti guy but on these cars, I have never see one without grafitti.

TomO

 

[2Tracks]

Took me about two weeks to put this car together, just plugging away at it.......

I do have several many tank cars, my first Army tank car though.... When I went to apply the decals on the under frame, the ID decal on the left end literally exploded when I drop it back into the dish of water. I hadn't even thought about it being brittle, but I had the remedy for that, a bottle of Microscale Liquid Decal Film. I coated the rest of the decals and got them applied ok. The ID decal I had to install one character at a time from a decal sheet.

The hand rail was a real bugger, it is some what flexible and was broken in two places on one end and one place on the other end. I like the Tichy handrails, they seem to be made out of a more rigid plastic.

 

[Alcomotive]

A few more packages arrived when I was away in Alabama tis past week.

I wanted to get this locomotive as it was a local that ran in Saratoga Springs to North Creek and used to do the ski train etc and tourism etc. I even got a boxcar in the SNC livery recently as well. So this will just be a run thru on my layout on occasions. This has great sound. I bought this from Yankeedabbler.com. Great price! I will do a debut later on, on my thread of JR's UPPR.

 

[Alcomotive]

Here's the box car.....

 

[mikeknuckey]

Afther 3 weeks at customs... This Lot has arrived!

 

[CambriaArea51]

The Brown Santa (aka UPS) stopped today. 45' containers from Aurora miniatures.

 

[Alcomotive]

I went to the LHS on my lunch break today and came away with some switches. I probrably could have gotten these online but I like to support them now and then.

I came home to these 4 cars delivered by USPS snail mail. I got these off FaceBook Market Place. $76 total including shipping...not bad it breaks down to $25.33 each.