I didn’t see that mentioned anywhere. Any link to the info?
Thanks
BRASSTRAINS dot COM just started their annual Winter Sale.
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It is no where near as good as recent years. Not enough to get me off of my wallet. If there is something you have been considering, it might be worth a look.
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Maybe more items will be added to the sale later.
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-Kevin
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No problem. The Moloco box cars are some of the finest I’ve seen and they are based on real box cars - photographs posted with each type. The 20OFF is a good deal. I ordered a PC, B&M from the newest run of FGE 10’ door and a red Santa Fe. The ones I got are basically good for late 1970’s. Some are as-delivered from the early to mid 1960’s. There are a few late 80’s ATSF plain or circle cross paint schemed as well.
Not the finest but the best ever [Y].
Yes, very nice…if they fit your era…
Sheldon
They look so good i did make one fit my era.
They do look great, but my period being more “modern” or “current”, they just don’t fit.
I do like their “parts” section.
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It is funny that people would just assume they are sold out without checking before paying more than twice the original price.
I bought all I needed when they came out, two in the 1955 scheme, and four undecorated kits for my ATLANTIC CENTRAL, who also purchaced wagon top box cars and hoppers from the B&O shops…
And yes, I am stretching history running that scheme in my September 1954 setting, but it is my favorite scheme on those cabooses…
Sheldon
Mike, while most of the box cars sold range from early 1960’s through mid-1980’s time period, Moloco does have two ATSF versionswhich were repainted in 1988 and 1989 (respectively - see links below) and lasted in service well into the BNSF era beyond 1995.
https://www.molocotrains.com/collections/freight-cars/products/22088-atsf
https://www.molocotrains.com/collections/freight-cars/products/21089-atsf
Not true. When my son was born, I immediately went out and got him that slot car set I was sure he wanted. [:D]
Sheldon, If you get to the Strasburg, hit the train store just up the street by the Choo Choo Barn (a wonderful O gauge display), and also the Toy Train Museum which is very close to the Strasburg RR (not to mention the Railroad Museum of PA across the street). Weather is supposed to be wonderful Sunday, so a good day for a train ride.
Our “Black Friday” always consists of getting our tree from a local tree farm. Then, if we do “retail” it’s usually Goodwill, which we did yesterday, as well as a farmers market near us. Saturday is decorate the tree day. This year I had a huge “problem”. My O gauge trains are being used for our annual train event at church (I got all the train guys to put together layouts to display on the second Saturday of December, loads of fun). I was going to put an HO around the tree this year but we bought a huge tree - far larger than usual - and the HO would look silly around it. So, I “had” to put the G scale around this year!
Bill, trust me, as a 61 year life long resident of Maryland, who only lives 37 miles from Strasburg, I’ve been there literally a hundred times or more… I’m a bit of a Strasburg junkie… In fact I was just there three weeks ago with my 7 year old grandson.
We have done it all, rode the train in every season, seen Thomas, slept in the cabooses, there is brick in my honor at the Toy Train Museum (a gift from my grandchildren), a key person at the railroad is a personal aquaintance, so I have had the “deluxe” shop tour, and more…
We ended up going today, mainly to buy Papo Midieval figures for the 7 year old grandson. Seems the ChooChoo Barn gift shop has better prices on them than Amazon…
I checked out the train shop, but found nothing I really need or wanted. But after more than 45 years in this hobby, my needs can be pretty specific…
Take care,
Sheldon
Well having not found what I wanted in the way of motive power at the Greenberg show I ordered it for my wife to give me for Christmas from Trainworld.
I did pick up some tools i wanted at the show. I was surprised to see Micro-Mark there.
Modeltrainstuff had a 5% off on all orders on Black Friday. That day is crazy busy for many places. I avoid the malls and do shopping online. I got the large Walthers Cement plant. It should keep me busy for awhile!
There are some great Cyber Monday deals. I get annoyed when that day offers better sales than on Friday. At least getting out Friday gives people more reason to stop grazing on leftovers!
For you guys who are modeling 1988+ and into the 1990’s, Moloco has marked down their 1988 ATSF Bx-97 and 1989 ATSF Bx-94 (circle cross) to $39.00.
https://www.molocotrains.com/collections/freight-cars/products/22088-atsf?variant=33169796239
https://www.molocotrains.com/collections/freight-cars/products/21089-atsf
I just checked and you can apply the 20OFF code still (through the end of today, Cyber Monday) and get 20% off that price. That’s $31.20 each - probably the lowest I’ve seen a decorated Moloco box car and a killer deal for very nicely detailed box cars.
I noticed MBK is excluding Athearn and a few other brands from the 5% off. I did go ahead and order a set of Walthers Trailmobile 40 trailers and got my whopping one dollar off. Woo!
The Moloco sale was far better in terms of money off so they got the lions share of my Black Friday hobby money.
I also ordered a C&NW 4427 3-bay hopper from ExactRail for $28.95. I almost ordered a 2nd car but the shipping literally doubled for two so I just ordered the one car.
I got my invoice for the Spring Mill Depot PD3000 covered hopper which was marked $15 off the normal price. I see SMD sold out of all the cabooses in the sale, and 3 out of 6 numbers of the CSX Canstock car. Apparently SMD h
BTW my birthday is November 30th, I don’t recognize the Christmas season as starting until after that “holiday”.
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Well, Small Business Saturday did not go as planned this year.
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I started out at Metro Trains in Fort Myers. This is my local store, so I did not find anything special or unexpected, but it seemed like a good place to start.
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Then I drove to Sarasota to stop in at Gulf Coast Model Railroading. This is my “usual” hobby shop where I am quite a regular, so again, nothing out of the ordinary for train shopping.
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The plan was to then go to Dana’s Railroad Supply in Spring Hill, but I got a phone call. I found out I need to be in Atlanta for work on Monday morning.
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I returned home, made travel arangements, packed up, and hit the road. I drove to Lake City, Florida on Saturday, but was too late for a stop at Dana’s.
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So Small Business Saturday was kind of a bust for me this year, and now I am in Atlanta where it is 28 degrees outside. Heading back down to the South as soon as I post this message.
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I need to get where it is warm.
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I hope everyone else’s shopping was better.
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-Kevin
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