I found this one at a train show recently. It was being sold with a set Bachmann Amfleets. Since Im running Superliners (based on the Empire Builder) in Phase IV set in the late 90's I was able to talk the guy into separating it from the set. Saved $70 over buying it when the next release of Athearns come out around the same time pigs learn to fly (they have pushed the release date from July to September). But if we are going to talk new you can't run a BNSF piggyback train without a way to load the trailers. So here is my Wheels of Time PC-90 Piggypacker.
Acquired another Alcos off eBay, this time an Atlas RSD-4. Will show picture when it arrives. Love these six-axle units! Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
New Additions Another Loco: Intermountain S40-2W w/DCC + Sound Atlas 50' Single Door Box Car Atlas 50' Berwick Box Cars Atlas 42' Coil Steel Cars And I've got an Athearn Genesis CN GP40-2W coming any day
In an attempt to keep up the progress on my final town, I picked up Walthers "Merchants Row IV". Near completion in these pictures. I have to make a few signs and it should be ready to go.
Lucky Show Find! I was at the Crawley Model Railway Society's Annual Show yesterday; found this on the club's Second Hand Stand for £75 It's a DCC Ready KATO with all its detail parts in the box and Unnumbered, so I can avoid KATO's mistake regarding road #s (they did #2502 and #2503, which in the real world have the Canadian 4 window cab). I'd forgotten to visit the ATM before I left home and didn't have enough cash on me; fortunately one of the traders was happy to help by doing a 'cashback' on my Debit Card along the purchase I was making.
Steve, Very nice find. Today I went a put on layway an Intermountain ES44AC w/loksound decorated for NS's Central of Georgia. This is my first intermountain HO loco. Seemed to test run & Sound great. Will just need to mess with the horn sounds.
Thanks Nick. I've already got the Kadee couplers sorted; painted the step edges yellow and have the necessary Microscale Decal sets are on order - the sill stripe is supposed to be yellow, not orange - and there's no way I'm painting that when I can use decals instead. Now I've just got to settle on a DCC w/Sound option - and whether I can live with the Ditchlights under the porch instead of on it; oh, and find paint for the grabs and handrails to match the CN orange now that both my LHS have closed down :headspin:
In preparation for this summer's garden railway work I decided I needed a new loco. I had been looking at lots of european steam engines, since last year I got a really great deal on some 1930's german passenger cars, but then I saw this really colorful loco by Lima. I have a weak spot for electrics, there's just something about a box on wheels with pantographs that really grabs my attention. http://www.oogardenrailway.co.uk/gallery/image.php?image_id=2432 The seller had listed it as lima, but after I requested more photos I discovered it was actually a Roco model and a fairly new and not so common one too. In my usual non prototype way I bought another engine, just because it was "pretty". It should look nice running with a mixed set of my international coaches.
I paid much less than what I saw the same second hand loco go for on ebay.co.uk I'll go ahead and say I paid 86 bucks for it. Considering new locos by roco are generally between 170.00 and many are upward of 270.00$, I feel like I spent too much, but at the same time if I hadn't cranked my bids up I would probably never own one of these. I don't purchase from europe anymore because shipping is always in the 20.00$ range adding to overall price. I also got burned on exchange rates, unintentionally by a friend in europe. He had me pay him via his daughters paypal. Price was fixed at X number of pounds. I sent the payment promptly, but his daughter never clicked the receive button. The payment was rejected and I had to redo it. When I redid it the exchange rate was nearly double what I had originally agreed to. I ended up paying premium prices for some fairly cheap passenger coaches. You win some, you lose some. I am not a huge train purchaser anymore. I have more trains than I need so this may be my one purchase for the year. What do you think? Too high a price for a Roco with one buffer missing and no box?
Looks like I got a DC version not a DCC. The yellow plows is 43629 from 1991 to 1997. http://www.bahn.hfkern.de/Roco/SJ_Rc.html I really liked the color of it. I had been resisting newer european models due to the prices and my collection is mostly hornby and lima from the 70's to 80's. ----- ok here is a recent analog model of an RC2: http://www.reynaulds.com/products/Roco/73450.aspx Alan, I just realized what make your MAV is. Really fine looking loco, but yours is a ACME! OUCH, even looking at product list makes my checkbook feel ligher. ha ha