A very good day

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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So today I went to pensacola with my father to go junkyard diving. I was fairly succesful, getting several pieces I needed for my car (mostly just getting replacemnt interior panels that have the clips on them). Afterwards I decided to hit some hobby shops.

My old stand-by is Trains by Johnson. I’ve always gone there when in Pensacola. I went in to get a bulk pack of Kadees or Proto-Max couplers, but they were out. However when Looking I stumbled across some detail parts. They’ve never had detail parts before (at least as far as I can tell), but they had some (not many though) today. I found a detail part I hadn’t been able to find before. They had a Train station Products grill set to convert a P2K GP18 into a GP9 and a set of Detail associates fuel tank fittings for EMDs.

It got better though, I went into the used room and found a loco I could use as the base for something. A P2K GP, It caught my eye at first because someone painted in Daylight colors for Cotton Belt. Upon further inspection, it was a GP7 that I could use; but it needs some TLC. Needs new handrails, glazing, light boards, and grabs (someone installed wire grabs, but did them upside down, then flattened them to the shell. But at $20 I don’t think it was too bad, given it ran alright when they tested it.

So I wound up spending about $25 at Trains by Johnson. I also had a discussion with an older modeler who was happy to see “young blood in the hobby that is not afraid of doing work to get what he wants.” I guess he saw me examine the GP7 and the few detail parts.

Then I decided to stop by the West Florida Railroad Museum, in Milton. They have a hobby shop as well. Last time I went was before the last Pensacola show (they stopped running that a few years ago) but I just gave it a quick-look over.

I get there and there are A TON of detail parts. I start rummaging though and came up with the following:
1x DA 2807 (speed recorder), DA 2208 (Pilots for 1

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Vincent,

Excellent Day man!!!
Awesome!

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All I can say is, sometimes you get lucky. Obviously, this was one of your times.

[tup][tup][8D]

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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making me cry. rambo1…

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Nice to “hit a goldmine” once in a while. That should keep you busy.

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the force was strong with you yesterday. hopefully I can score some Kato BN passenger cars (both the 4 adn 6 car sets) for the same price that one guy wanted for four.

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Why?

Yup. I’ve been working on that GN caboose as of late. I got the window frames silver with a sharpie, and am going to add the grabs and stuff later today. Only if that shop wasn’t 40-some-odd miles away.

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Packer- Be careful with the sharpie marker, I’ve heard where the black markers will bleed and change colors after being sprayed with gloss coat. You might want to try it on a scrap piece of styrene painted the same as the caboose. I’d hate to see a perfectly good job ruined by a chemical reaction. Otto

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I used a silver marker, IDK if that’d have the same affect as the black ones. I won’t use black ones because they leave a pruplish hue behind.