The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[rtraincollector]

Morning all. Happy Easter All.

Well not to much going on today. Think I will go back to the unit tomorrow to rearrange it some. Got some stuff for free as some one didn't sell it and didn't want to pack it back up worst scenario pack it up take to auction house and get $5 for it. lol I'm getting things in a organization I like little by little. still need to get more items so that's a slow process ( other than trains lol) although I'm getting more and more interest each week.

Wife is getting up to make Easter dinner just a lazy day around here it was like 9 before I got up lol.

Well guess will go down and organize the train table and get the other remote dug out as think I will take one of the tmcc sets to the flea market to use.

Have my sign stating Authorize dealer/installer of ERR items just waiting for first order to come back with there letter of acceptation which doesn't sound like its going to be a problem.

Good evening all, got some bad news from work I am scheduled for first shift this Sunday 2nd on Monday. I was supposed to go to one of my sisters house for Easter............oh well.

Good news someone gave me some Lionel stuff some old track, a transformer a FA ALCO "dummy" loco lighted with coil coupler and four cars for the MPC era (1970's) It was fun looking them up to see what they are. First thing I noticed was the Alco had a coil coupler got excited it is a 2032 ERIE FA A unit gave it some power and it lit up but no go. I looked at the bottom of loco Made in New York that is when It hit me there was no reverse unit lever there for no motor as it was from the 50's and it was lighted looked up the number it is part of an AA set The paint scheme is pretty well worn but other wise nice condition. I have 3 options:

1)Look for a motorized matching mate for it
2)Run it with a modern production FA unit(powered)
3) Find a running FA with equally worn paint scheme re-paint both for the BFT

As for the cars I have some MPC era freight cars plastic wheels and trucks one operating coupler on one end and a fixed coupler on the other. The cars are follows:

9011 GN Hopper BLT 7-70

9136 Republic Steel Gondola (missing canister load) BLT 2-72

9300 PC log/pipe dump car no BLT date on car (missing load) produced from 1970 - 1977

And a mystery flat car no number or BLT date only markings are DTI and molded in MPC marking looks like same ERA as the other cars and in my books the closest thing to a DTI flat is a DTI work caboose but of course no pic to compare it to. The DT&I flat is most like from a Yardmaster train set they made like 3 different variations but they had a small black flatcar in them here <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/DTI-DT-I-DETROIT-TOLEDO-IRONTON-Lionel-Yardmaster-Train-Set-O27-gauge-279-/261457435174?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3ce013da26">http://www.ebay.com/itm/DTI-DT-I-DETROI ... 3ce013da26</a><!-- m --> top right should be your flat car Researching even the less collectable stuff is fun