What are you buying this Month?

[migalyto]

Oh! I did not mention. Lady Cornelia is a little 0.4.0 Peckett W4 locomotive.

Another locomotive?

I thought Dawn said you had too many trains already!

 

[NorthBrit]

Another locomotive?

I thought Dawn said you had too many trains already!

She jests.

Actually I think she likes the smaller locomotives.

No more now.
Oh! I have two little Manning Wardle 0.4.0 locomotives on pre-order.
Should I purchase a North British Railway 4.4.0 Glen Class locomotive.? Decisions. Decisions.

 

[migalyto]

Should I purchase a North British Railway 4.4.0 Glen Class locomotive.?

Of course you should!

You know were a bunch of enablers here?

 

[NorthBrit]

Of course you should!

You know were a bunch of enablers here?

Modellers I know here are telling me to buy as well.

 

[John from Indiana]

I ordered Miller Tools from Jason Jensen

 

[michaeljoe]

they have.

Do you ling it?

 

[John from Indiana]

That looks great, I visited the web site Jason Jenson Trains, for the first time and really liked the buildings they have.
Do you think that you might post some pics. of the... Miller Tools... model kit while you are assembling it?

Better yet, check out Jason's build:

 

[Kusojiji]

North British Railway 4.4.0 Glen Class

Gotta luv those giant main drivers. Looks awesome!

 

[Kusojiji]

P42 power unit and SD40 truck from Kato USA. Will be using one of these to power a tram. I will be adding a coreless motor to the SD40 truck. The P42 runs very smoothly and has some weight.

 

[bnsf971]

I made an impulse buy for a Kato Kumoya 90. Closest I could get to an N scale Kumoha 40 since I have an HO version.

At first, it ran like cr@p so I was worried. Took a look at the motor and added some oil to its bearings. Yep, that did the trick. Added cabin lights and off to the races. Need to investigate why the lights look so yellow...


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For a time, Kato got hold of some "really" yellow LEDs. I've ended up with a few over the years, and usually replaced the LED with a golden white LED.

 

[NorthBrit]

There was a time not long ago when I knew nothing about it.
Then, all of a sudden, I was inundated with the information.
First it was an email.
Then on the Forums.
People telling me I should buy one.
All were saying 'One has NorthBrit written on it'.
I looked and looked and looked.

Glen Orchy, Glen Quoich, Glenfinnan, Glen Douglas and more.
How is one ever going to arrive at Leeds Sovereign Street?
Their area was the West Highland,
Maybe Edinburgh, Dundee or the Waverley Route.

Think, NorthBrit. Think.
The layout is in a timeframe 1914 - 1919.
There is a war on.
Troop Trains from the North heading South.
Military freight doing the same.

Which one? Which one?
Glen Orchy and Glen Quoich are correct to the timeframe.
Sometimes trains run in a 1969 - 1978 timeframe on the layout
Both locomotives no longer existed.

Glen Douglas still survives and is in North British Railway livery!
It can run in both timeframes.

Pre-ordered.

 

[Kusojiji]

For a time, Kato got hold of some "really" yellow LEDs. I've ended up with a few over the years, and usually replaced the LED with a golden white LED.

Those must've been the bulb days. I do like the warmer colors, especially for my old timers. This instance though was through my own doing. The LED was too white, so I added a couple of layers of kapton tape as a filter. It looked fine earlier but in that shot, it looked much yellower than the car in front. I have since replaced them with a set from Glanzlight. This guy makes stuff for N and HO that come with stay alive caps for most.

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The item name has stuff like darkchg, middlechg, or dark, middle, etc. The middle/dark is for the brightness and the chg is if there are 3 100uf caps installed or not. Each item also has a pull down for the color temp: white, natural or bulb. He also sells the 100uf caps that you can add yourself if he doesn't have that combination for sale, which in my case he didn't for the dark bulb combo. The lights are sold with 10 per pack, along with the brass strips for Kato or springs for Tomix, and the caps are sold in packs of 30 since each strip can take 3 each.

Video from the guy that made me aware of these.

The site states that he can ship overseas and includes the rates. As for payment, he doesn't take foreign credit cards so it is a pain for me.

 

[davidone]

I can never understand the design of the British locomotives, to me they are odd, and to me ugly!! But for some reason I am attracted to them in a weird sort of way. I love old time British railroading though I have never seen these things running except in models. I guess I'm too used to American railroading.
I gotta get to the UK one day but unfortunately I'm running out of time.

 

[DeaconKC]

Got these and 3 40' boxcars yesterday. The loco is supposed to be a donor for a brass shell but it looks really good as is.

 

[Kusojiji]

I can never understand the design of the British locomotives, to me they are odd, and to me ugly!! But for some reason I am attracted to them in a weird sort of way. I love old time British railroading though I have never seen these things running except in models. I guess I'm too used to American railroading.
I gotta get to the UK one day but unfortunately I'm running out of time.

Same here, but have always been impressed by their large main driving wheels. Love the spoke, wagon wheel look. Started buying this past December, mostly 0-4-0, 0-6-0's and one 2-6-0. They grew on me.

 

[insomniville]

Back from the Austin train show. Someone needs to apply a padlock to my wallet before I manage to spend all my food money:

Most of it is used rolling stock; I had only a handful of toys on that score, so I couldn't help myself. A small amount of new stuff, and one single used locomotive; we'll see how the latter works out.

My favorite find is the Amazon Prime shipping containers, though:

I really wanted these for my future layout, and that also led to the Kato Gunderson sets, which I hope they will fit (but we'll see). Is it sad that the majority of my spend was on Amazon Prime shipping containers and the rail cars that will carry them?

Sigh.

I've now spent this month's train budget... and next month's... and probably the month's after that too...

And somewhere along the way, I somehow managed to become a collector of Chessie System stuff. Now I need a loco with Chessie livery...

 

[DeaconKC]

Yes on the Chessie stuff!
I had a good haul at the Conway AR train show today. I made a list to keep myself on line and under budget. I succeeded on both counts.
The Devil's Gulch boxcar was not expected, but made the whole trip worthwhile.

 

[Canalligator]

I just ordered an NWSL repowering kit for one of my blue box U33Cs. It took a while for me to diagnose the problem. But it came down to this: if I stall the loco by hand, the circuit breaker trips. It is so bad that when consisted, the normal tension and compression actions between locos will sometimes trip the breaker too.

 

[westtexjohn]

Back from the Austin train show. Someone needs to apply a padlock to my wallet before I manage to spend all my food money:

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Most of it is used rolling stock; I had only a handful of toys on that score, so I couldn't help myself. A small amount of new stuff, and one single used locomotive; we'll see how the latter works out.

My favorite find is the Amazon Prime shipping containers, though:

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I really wanted these for my future layout, and that also led to the Kato Gunderson sets, which I hope they will fit (but we'll see). Is it sad that the majority of my spend was on Amazon Prime shipping containers and the rail cars that will carry them?

Sigh.

I've now spent this month's train budget... and next month's... and probably the month's after that too...

And somewhere along the way, I somehow managed to become a collector of Chessie System stuff. Now I need a loco with Chessie livery...

I wanted to go to the Austin Train show but I also have plans for the Plano Train show in Sept, so I optioned not to do the Austin show. Austin, for me, is about a 300 mile drive one way, Plano is about 185 miles, one way.
I am familiar with Brads Trains. It is not hard to spend a ton of money with that guy. I only buy from Brad when he is the only guy on planet earth that has something I really, really want. He always has a great selection but at premium prices.
Glad you could go and looking at your photos, you had a great day.

 

[PMW]

Some things in life are as unpleasant as they are inevitable…so today i did a little depression spending. I’ve got the turnout installed and loosened a truck screw on one of the tank cars which was derailing on one spot. It’s good now.

Tomorrow maybe get to plaster cloth and ballast.