http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-2343...661400?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item5667343218 2343 set, one powered, one dummy, for $5500. Mint. Marks on roof. If extraordinary, mint, rare, maybe $550.....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2340g-LIONE...348496?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item53eea926d0 1955 only! $5745! Yet: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Postwar-Lio...ripes-GG-1-1955-only-w-0rig-box-/171472517996 same unit with OB for $800 and http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-post...ania-GG-1-electric-train-engine-/201182913904 for $600 and http://www.ebay.com/itm/1955-Lionel...lvania-Green-C-5-6-Tested-Works-/201175846325 for $800. SOMEBODY is pushing the envelope, and I think the balloon is going to pop.
Not even advertised as Vintage, Rare.....except maybe, possibly, he thinks it was actually built in 1941. No longer an untouched Lionel. Weathered, two-railed, and more money than I would consider for a brass Lobaugh. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-auto-box-with-load-NICE-3-DAY-BUY-IT-NOW-AUCTION/251668133946 "Burlington automobile box car , car dated new 1941 ." Only $325. For a boxcar.
Oh, boy. http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-1281...449325?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2596a9056d ONLY photo is the instruction sheet. $9964.99. WHERE did he come up with a price like that? No telling if it's old or new....the later ones, 1992-1994, other evilbait listings: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/LIONEL-TRAIN...NEW-IN-BOX-NEVER-BEEN-ASSEMBLED-/131246796057 $48.50, listed as "never been assembled", yet as "used". Go figure. http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-1281...05&prg=10819&rk=4&rkt=6&sd=161441449325&rt=nc $74.50, photo of instructions and, Lordy, the end of the box! http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/191363096527?item=191363096527&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466 Buy-it-now for $35. Must be the season...and it's close to a full moon, no less! Dave
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2245-LIONEL...747632?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3cca75adf0 If you read it, it's a repaint, with Santa Fe warbonnet underneath. Seems to want us to think it's factory. Look at the masking tape pull off on the right front at the cab steps. Right. Claims red pilot is "rare". Type in 2245 Lionel into your search engine..they're all red. $3695, pilot scratched to hades, here's the same set for $112.50, current of 8 bids: http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-TEXA...638047?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item48703c305f Note red pilot.
Something definitely does not feel right. The decals on A unit cab front sides seem off to me. Spacing or something. The only semi-decent picture I can find of mine, I cannot see close in enough. Even at one tenth that price, still too much.
Now we're getting somewhere. Trying to figure out the thought processes of some evilbait sellers...and we have a winner! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-1802...524123?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item19eb93f2db RARE! #87 of 30 made...right there in the title, nothing in description to clarify... But, there's more! Can't figure out numbers made and unit number, but two clicks, here is the data: http://www.collector-modeltrains.com/dash/universe/catalog_item/MT-0856606/ Lionel 18028 "3768" Pennsylvania K4 Steamline Steam Locomotive. This is part of the Lionel Smithsonian Collection. The Smithsonian Collection was a very Limited-run series produced by Lionel in the mid 1990s. Only 500 of these locomotives were produced. But, then, the unit referred to with the description above, sold for $643....not quite the $2750 asked. Probably worth the 2750 to the right guy...just the ability to see numbers and understand them is telling....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-1802...530212?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item19eb940aa4 Same guy, different engine, lower price, #198 of 50. If they're so rare, just how many does he have, anyway?
Now we understand "rare", "vintage", "#198 of 50". You're right about legalizing weed.....and one would think this has been going on (and killing the little grey cells) for a lot longer than it was legal.....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2340g-LIONE...348496?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item53eea926d0 These folks are a good, consistent source of this horrendous BS. C-10...yet, if you read TCA, nothing is, due to chips in manufacturing. Dirty end steps, blackening rubbed off, and to my feeble eyes, obviously a repaint. Dirt in the paint on the roof, the heat stamped lettering and numbers on the side...you can see the heat stamp marks, and the paint for the numbers certainly isn't "in the lines". The lettering is far too "bright", the stripes are far too "dull". So....somebody has a repaint, claiming C-10, and asking....no box...are you ready? $5,744.25
The stripes don't feel right at all. Too light, as noted, and nowhere near as crisp as I'd want to see. Even if it was not repainted, this is only C-5, or maybe C-6 if really pushing it. Isn't this the same seller with the grossly over priced Texas Special?
Yup. One and the same. Really strange. Nobody who is in their right mind would bite on any of that stuff. They either bought a pile of repaints (and didn't look before parting with wads of greenbacks) or commissioned the repainted themselves. Either way, none of it is worth 10% of the asking.
For your viewing enjoyment. Out of the 3-rail posts for this one. 2-rail 0, not sure if insulated drivers, but I see no outside third whiskers.... Current bid is $210 for something that appears to have spent some time in a salt water flooded basement.....or one of those midwest floods, since seller is Naperville, Illinois. Note peeled paint. Note horribly rusted drivers, wheels....imagine condition of driver axles inside the sand cast bronze frame...or getting the steel crankpin screws out of those cast iron drivers...motor...shot...steel worm and worm shaft...most likely unusable. I have one of these. I paid $125 for mine, complete, painted, and running. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Scale-Craft-Brass-O-Gauge-SP-Mountain-Locomotive-1940/361072559596
Maybe there is something about that loco we are missing. But my imagination isn't wild enough to guess what it might be.... Maybe inside the boiler is the key to Al Capone's lost vault?
I don't know...but this guy has some oddities: "QUALIFICATION NOTE: You must have a feedback rating of at least 25 comments to participate in my auctions." Ever seen that? Probably.....just that I never paid attention. Maybe folks can read but not comprehend photos: "Here's a very hard to find all-original example of the Southern Pacific Mountain..." Peeled paint, lettering, and more rust than you'd see in a Soviet Submarine is not quite "all-original". Dave
