Quote from: Johnson Bar Jeff on March 12, 2009, 03:27:03 PM
Rivarossi of Italy supplied AHM (which, I believe, is now IHC) with the 16-wheel Lincoln funeral car back in the 1970s. Rivarossi also supplied AHM's Virginia & Truckee locomotives and rolling stock.

I've had one of the funeral cars since I was a kid, back in the '70s. I believe today the models are pretty rare. I've seen them go for heaps of money when they come up for auction on eBay.

The beginning of this week I won one, which will be by second Lincoln car, for a mere $26 USD. I'm still scratching my head over how that happened. 

Currently there is another Lincoln funeral car listed on eBay, if anyone is interested. 

Quote from: pdlethbridge on March 14, 2009, 10:26:06 PM
quote Bob "Yampa is UTE for bear"

Bear what?

Quote from: grumpy on March 14, 2009, 11:58:44 PM
Cute bear.
Don

Awww. ... 

I suppose if you have the space for it, you could "store" the engines in a display case. That's what I do with my Spectrum Richmond 4-4-0 when I'm not running it.

Quote from: BIG BEAR on March 12, 2009, 02:56:00 AM
Hey Guys check this: From the Hawthorne Village Collectables sight,
  http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-917342.jsp?_Trains/_prod/_/_/_132/_1063/_/_Y&endeca=true&abbr=trai
   
    I guess my questions would be: Does Bachmann still make this stuff for Hawthorne? If so is this something new having an american 4-4-0 Locomotive? Is this an HO set as stated? (I don't see bachmann making passenger cars like this in HO.) OR is this an On30 set with a 4-4-0 (which I also have never seen) HMMMM Puzzleing!
    I hope Bachmann can give a clear and complete explanation. Thanks.
          Enjoy,
            Barry

The engine looks like Bachmann's "Jupiter" to me, and the cars look like the Bachmann old-time passenger cars.

Quote from: Daylight4449 on October 24, 2008, 05:13:51 PM
You know, I have never seen one but I have a lincoln funeral car by ahm I got from my grandpa

Rivarossi of Italy supplied AHM (which, I believe, is now IHC) with the 16-wheel Lincoln funeral car back in the 1970s. Rivarossi also supplied AHM's Virginia & Truckee locomotives and rolling stock.

I've had one of the funeral cars since I was a kid, back in the '70s. I believe today the models are pretty rare. I've seen them go for heaps of money when they come up for auction on eBay.

The beginning of this week I won one, which will be by second Lincoln car, for a mere $26 USD. I'm still scratching my head over how that happened. 

Quote from: Jim Banner on March 06, 2009, 02:22:39 PM
The other explanation that I have heard is that the NMRA couldn't accept 00 and 000 gauge because they did not come up with those designations.  Rather like them trying to set standards for large scale, even though the G1MRA standards have been in effect worldwide for many years.

Got it. Sounds a little childish, doesn't it?

So, anyway, over last weekend, I cleaned up enough of the old Gilbert track to set up a small oval, and had a go at running a locomotive on it. The old track still worked well, but it was almost immediately apparent that a roadbed track system with a method for holding the sections together in addition to the rail joiners is superior to a sytem where the sections are connected only by the rail joiners. 

Abandon all hope, ye who enter the realm of steam. ...   

Quote from: Jim Banner on March 05, 2009, 05:26:18 PM
Incidentally, this version of the differences in naming H0-gauge and N-gauge is much nicer to the NMRA than the other one. 

What's "the other one"?

Can it be shared on a family-friendly forum?

Ever since I tried EZ-track, I've veen very happy with it as a good, solid base for my "semipermanent" layout. Makes me wonder, though, why it took so long for the idea of sectional track with a roadbed to catch on?

When I was a small boy in the early 1960s, one Christmas my grandparents gave me a Gilbert/American Flyer HO set, "The North Coast Limited," a very nice Northern Pacific passenger set that came with an oval of sectional track that included a roadbed. I never really used the track; by the time I received the set, Grandpa had already built me a 4'x8' platform with a double oval of track complete with double cross-over, so I had no need for the track and it got tossed years ago.

The train set, however, I've always hung onto, and just last week I was able to acquire an oval of the Flyer track to "restore" the set somewhat. It's not bad-looking sectional track, really. The roadbed is plastic, molded in gray. The ties are part of the molded roadbed, but they're brown. The sections are held together only by the rail joiners--no clips like EZ-track.

I probably won't much use this "new/old" track any more than I used the track that came with the set originally. The set remains stored at my father's home, where the train is run every Christmas on a small platform that I build years ago with a 36"x45" loop of track.

But I still wonder whether Gilbert was ahead of its time in making this track, and why the idea of sectional track with roadbed didn't really catch on until, what, maybe 35-40 years after I got my "North Coast Limited" set?

Anybody else remember this Gilbert/Flyer HO sectional track?

Wow. Sad news. 

I think Bowser steam locomotives have been around longer than I have.

Being basically a low-tech kinda guy, I just have a simple Word document for an inventory of my rolling stock.

It had to be done because the collection reached the point where there was no way I could remember what car or locomotive was stored in which box.

Now, at least, if I can't remember in which box I've stored the Mantua 1890 D&RGW passenger cars, I can "search" the Word document and quickly find them. Each entry in the document includes what the item is (e.g., "steam locomotive, 4-4-0"), the road name, the model manufacturer, and the box where it's stored (I use computer paper boxes and I've numbered each box--don't ask me how many boxes I have--currently  ).

Once I got the first document completed, I then created a second document where I listed the stock by road name.

Like I said, it's kinda low tech, but it does what I need.

Quote from: Yampa Bob on February 21, 2009, 04:29:52 PM
Unfortunately, train shows are seldom held in my area.  Actually I prefer placing items on consignment at a large store, such as Caboose Hobbies.  Then I don't have to deal with cheapskates that expect to buy new cars at half price.

My situation is similar but complicated by living in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. I don't have a car because I don't need one on a daily basis and so it would be just a huge waste of money to have one.

But it makes it difficult to get to train shows, which are invariable held in the suburbs somewhere.

Quote from: CNE Runner on February 21, 2009, 11:59:19 AM
I agree with your comments on eBay. I usually resort to surfing eBay when I am tired of looking at the cracks in the den walls. Yes, there are lots of good items, on auction, but the playing field is not as level as you may think it is. There are "snyping programs" out there that will enter a bid for you at the last possible second. This means those of us who are watching the bidding process may not have a chance at winning.

Don't mean to go all-OT on you guys, but just had to mention that I believe I fell victim to one of these programs just recently. I found a very nice collection of old Gilbert HO track--with roadbed--and decided to bid in order to "restore" the track to the Gilbert HO North Coast Limited passenger set that I've had since childhood (the track got thrown away years ago). I was the highest bidder with literally seconds to go, and--BOOM! Got outbid.

Quote from: Yampa Bob on February 20, 2009, 09:22:03 PM
Maybe we should all get together for a "swap meet".  Sure Jeff, ship it over, just don't tape the boxes too tightly. 

  Careful, Bob, I just might! 

Quote from: Yampa Bob on February 20, 2009, 02:07:57 AM
My problem is having too much storage space so we never get rid of stuff.  The ceiling in my office is at 9', the top 2 feet is solid shelves around all 4 walls.

The hallway outside my office is a 12 foot wide walk through to the garage, and it's all storage boxes and extra closets. If we could sell all this stuff, I'd have a 12' X 12' room for a bigger layout.

Yeah, I wish the forum had a classified section. I won't have anything to do with Ebay.  The extra cars are all new, never been out of the boxes.

Well, Bob, if you've got all that room, how 'bout if I just ship a couple of computer-paper boxes of rolling stock out to you? Nature abhors a vacuum, and your stuff will always expand to fill all available space.