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

[Alcomotive]

My ebay package came from Massachusetts yesterday. Lately these cross country items have arrived in just a couple days.

They have been in an open box in a garage for years, judging by the grime, however I am very satisfied with the purchase, for 52.94 (includes shipping cost) I got the loco, tender (which I will not be using with the tank loco), the MOW gondola, and the snowplow.

They are all Rivarossi. The loco ran smooth even though I did not tinker with it at all, did not even clean off the grime for the initial test:

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The trucks were off the tender. Not sure what I am going to do with it, however will use the trucks at least and plan on repainting the loco

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The writing on the gondola is crisp, however don't think she will really haul 125,000 with those trucks? Also, wonder why it says Michigan Central and New York Central Lines?

The snowplow looks pretty good as well:

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All in all, pretty good detail for molded grabs and the wheels are steel also real springs is a nice detail.

The Best news is the loco runs very well. After switching out the couplers and paint will be on the layout.

Dave LASM

Apparently NYC controled the MC lines. Interesting find really. I just read the history on it and it is quite interesting.

Michigan Central Railroad - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[logandsawman]

Apparently NYC controled the MC lines. Interesting find really. I just read the history on it and it is quite interesting.

Michigan Central Railroad - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Very interesting details about the Michigan Central. Not sure what I will do with the gondola, however having some context may help me create a new story.

Thanks James!

Dave

 

[D&J RailRoad]

My Great grandfather was run over and killed by a NYC passenger train in 1928 near Battle Creek, MI. He was 85, walking home along the tracks as he did just about every day. Suddenly crossed the tracks in front of the train.

 

[Iron Horseman]

Very bright clean fresh cars from the Walthers Mainline series. To be weathered and sent off

I've always loved the Canadian wheat cars.

 

[TLOC]

I've always loved the Canadian wheat cars.

They definitely can grow on you. I have 2 of these cars but in the more updated green version.

 

[TLOC]

Future reference....Walthers never did a second run series on these Walthers 3-pak Ready to Run series that I know of. Although they did run (2) individual packs of different numbers to coincide with the 3-paks. So in reality you could have 5 different numbers of the same railroad for this series.

The Goldline and Platinum series are different where they ran a bunch of numbers as well as the Proto series.

I knew the car numbers were different between series. I was unaware Walther’s did a Platinum series.

thanks

 

[TLOC]

That appears to be a very detailed car. Nice paint job....an eye catcher for sure. Are those scale width wheels? Could be a Tangent car.
Usually when I come across something I have "put back" I am reminded why I originally "put it back" to begin with.

The cars are Intermountain cars and they are nice. I found some at Spring Creek and Smudge617 found a bunch at Enginehouse Services in Green Bay, Wi. Can’t wait to see them

 

[Smudge617]

Seeing as the MDF Signal box was a disaster, to the point it went in the trash, got a replacement, but wood this time.

 

[TLOC]

Hello

We stopped this morning at Michael’s Crafts after 1st spending for a new refrigerator at Best Buy.

Tree making wire, showing 2 of the 16 paddles of wire I purchased, 22 gauge and 26 gauge, color does not matter. More paint pens for graffiti making, trying the Craftsmart brand. Finally a small bottle of Aleenes Tacky glue. No more big bottles as the last 2 dried up way too soon

 

[wombat457]

I can see where this thread really does cover what I started ... unbeknownst to me.

Anyway, have been hitting the card a bit hard this past month or so with the arrival of a few items:

2 x Tracksetta 15" Radius Gauges

2 X Tracksetta 18" Radius Gauges

1 X Showcase Miniature Two Truck

RSLaser Croydon General Store and Post Office

 

[wombat457]

Update, just placed an order for:

3 X 1/16th sheets Clapboard
1 X 1/16th Sheet Board and Batten (For addition to my General Store)
Qty Tamiya XF Acrylic Paints.

 

[Smudge617]

Some more goodies arrived today

Some lighting
2X Yard Lights
1X Mobile lighting tower
2X Exterior Lights

 

[wombat457]

@Smudge617 you can never have too much lighting on your layout

 

[CambriaArea51]

Got my new optivisor in the mail from Micro Mark along with my Paasche airbrush parts from Midwest airbrush.

 

[Smudge617]

Some more goodies arrived today.

After TomO's experience with his hopper's I've already had these out the boxes and checked them over.

 

[TLOC]

Chris you’re getting stuff all over the world. These arrived before noon today.

They look great and I will get these out with the other stuff to you next week

 

[Smudge617]

Chris you’re getting stuff all over the world. These arrived before noon today.

View attachment 162444They look great and I will get these out with the other stuff to you next week

Thank's Tom, what do you think of them ?

 

[wombat457]

Needed to try some different CA so thought I would give these a go:

I really prefer Loctite but TSC didn't stock it so got left with the above. Gorilla Glue has never been THAT Great BUT I like the delivery method. I've heard a lot of good things about the original(?) JB Weld so am hoping this Super Weld is as good.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Needed to try some different CA so thought I would give these a go:

Along with that, I've been using the super glue gel a lot. Stays put better on small stuff.

 

[wombat457]

Tom,

Yep, I got two small tubes of the Loctite Gel and liked it very much. Stays where you put it, and helps hold what your trying to adhere in place as well. Only issue I had was they were "small tubes" and you didn't get that much; however, I see Loctite has it in a similar container as the Gorilla glue container above so might have to just order some in.