What are you buying this Month?

[trailrider]

A 72' Con Cor coach for the Northern Pacific. It came with only one truck. Have just ordered a pair from Hiawatha Hobbies. Oddball king pin location. on both the trucks and the body.

 

[ShadowNix]

Taking my first baby steps into brass stuff. This is a fold up kit that requires no welding. It rides on a Kato 11-107 motor unit, so I know how it will perform.
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They offer HO scale stuff, so may venture that way later.

These look brilliant! I have some kits of various other stuff from when I was in Tokyo, but none of trains. Did not know they made these kits for trains? Do they have any US stuff? Oh, please msg me a link!

 

[Kusojiji]

Do they have any US stuff?

Unfortunately, no. A stretch would be a boxcab since they were imported from the US.

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[ShadowNix]

Unfortunately, no. A stretch would be a boxcab since they were imported from the US.

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Bummer but thanks for link!!! Cool stuff.

 

[Colorado Midland Modeler]

After seeing what happened with Mr. Ken Patterson's layout, I bought a second fire extinguisher for the train room. Now I have one next to the door to the room as well as one just under the layout benchwork that's also accessible from the work bench.

 

[NorthTexasRailroad]

Bought a GP38 with the BNSF Heritage 1 paint scheme from Rapido on sale the other day from Trainworld.

Showed up yesterday. Looks awesome.

 

[Kusojiji]

I just ordered a used, but new 3 car Bernina Express car set. I bought the 4 car set from the same place and they looked like they needed more buddies.

 

[Kusojiji]

Found a Proto 1000 RDC-2 on fleabay. Cheap. Looks like I need to install interior lighting, tail lights and change the bulb to LED. Listed as NIB, so we'll see.

 

[Colorado Midland Modeler]

Found a Proto 1000 RDC-2 on fleabay. Cheap. Looks like I need to install interior lighting, tail lights and change the bulb to LED. Listed as NIB, so we'll see.
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Nice! I've got to get one of those someday.

 

[Kusojiji]

There are quite a few up for sale. I should have gotten an RDC-3 of this brand since the motor takes up half of the space and the RDC-3's baggage? space doesn't have windows. With the RDC-2, there is a little overlap, so will have to paint some of the motor cover to try to make it disappear a bit.

 

[DeaconKC]

There are quite a few up for sale. I should have gotten an RDC-3 of this brand since the motor takes up half of the space and the RDC-3's baggage? space doesn't have windows. With the RDC-2, there is a little overlap, so will have to paint some of the motor cover to try to make it disappear a bit.

What if you just painted the inside of the "blocked" window a dark green, like a tinted window? Or maybe some shades?

 

[Kusojiji]

What if you just painted the inside of the "blocked" window a dark green, like a tinted window? Or maybe some shades?

Thanks! Didn't think of that. From what I was able to find, it looks like 3 rows of seats and two windows. The light hardly extends into this area, so blinds may work. May have the blinds pulled partially down. I will be looking for pics of the interior to get an idea.

 

[Espeefan]

They aren't here yet, but I paid the bill. Four of these commute coaches in green, two diners, and a lounge. They are on the water and should be here in about six weeks.

 

[Kusojiji]

I woke up this morning, found out that Rapido's Manning Wardle locos had arrived, started looking around and saw that they were selling out already. Placed this guy on order before any of the reviews came out, so hope they are worth it. This guy is "as preserved". Gotta luv the topless design. If it doesn't have firebox flicker as it doesn't seem to have, I'll see if I can install one. It's got an E24 socket, so that's a bummer as I don't have any of those lying around and my fav dcc source doesn't make one.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

I woke up this morning, found out that Rapido's Manning Wardle locos had arrived, started looking around and saw that they were selling out already. Placed this guy on order before any of the reviews came out, so hope they are worth it. This guy is "as preserved". Gotta luv the topless design. If it doesn't have firebox flicker as it doesn't seem to have, I'll see if I can install one. It's got an E24 socket, so that's a bummer as I don't have any of those lying around and my fav dcc source doesn't make one.
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What scale is that?

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Some C.B.&Q decals for Zephyr passenger cars and also some for Q steam engines.

Is there a Q steam on the horizon then?

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Just placed a Kato GE 6/6 on order. Wasn't really planning on it, but I guess this being a great expression of a boxcab... I wouldn't qualify this as a drunk buy, but working on it haha
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from wikipedia.

Well...this is referred to as a "Crocodile" not a boxcab, so definitely a drunk buy

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Well...i...fell for a rare buy...again. Anyway close to where i live there's a huge antique market called Renningans, which is only open on Sundays. There's one man there with trains and besides the usual Tyco, Bachmann, Lionel stuff, he also gets rare and unusual. This Swiss "Crocodile" in 0 gauge from Rai-Mo was completely unknown for me:

Swiss Be 6/8 in any gauge is a lot of money, especially in 0 gauge. It's an unmotorized kit and with a few details missing, including one power wheel, it should be an interesting project for the winter. The kit is mostly plastic, but with metal where it counts; wheels, side rods, buffers, suspension springs and pantographs are all metal, so possible powering option. After negotiation i paid $90 for it.

 

[Kusojiji]

What scale is that?

This is OO scale.

 

[Kusojiji]

Swiss Be 6/8

That's an awesome looking beast!