The guts are gone and they are asking $20,000. Will consider offers. Finish stripping it out and make a train room out of it!!!
That would be cool but I dont think the wife would let me put that in the yard and I know it wouldnt fit in the garage.
Oh I wish, but the city fathers wont allow me to even have a trailer parked in front of my place. I don't think they would go for that.
MR had an article a few years back about a couple that purchased a caboose, had it installed on a short piece of track in their yard, and built an N-scale Tehachapi Loop layout in it. Jamie
This gives me an idea. There is a junk dealer near Lucinda, PA that has old Knox & Kane boxcars out back, I wonder what he wants for one... I'll be moving up that way this summer when I start going to Clarion U, and I'll need a place to keep building my layout, lol. Infact, search for "41.285702,-79.38531" on Google Maps and you can see 'em.
$20,000???... ...so they don't dent the fender??? It's not worth that much in scrap and you could get it for a song if you knew the tune! Rigging- both ends (pickup and delivery) $6000. I think it would really be like $3500. Scrap- $8000 (maybe). I think it would really be like $2000. Delivery- $2000 (from there to here- rail-to-truck). I think it would really be like $2000. $800 for a dedicated low boy per day and some waiting. But $20,000 for the carcass- not worth a sniff considering the expenses besides. That's what I think. Eh, but what do I know? Mark And that's alot of padding added.
There is a place called Newberry springs east of Barstow that has cabooses and box cars in almost every yard. I wanted to buy a house with a caboose in the yard, but my wife said she would have to leave me. I was hard but I choose my wife. I asked around to see why there were so many and I was told that BSNF was selling them for $600-$800 each depending on their condition. The trucking companies were charging a $1000 to deliver and set up on your property within a local distance.
D11R,mine spec'd to the hilt! Still,a very nice peice of gear to operate & you'd need one big @rsed garage to fit that baby in.
Grandure Lady said "no". When I looked at her she repeated "no". So I tried my best "Gibbs" smile. It didn't work.
A lot of farms around here have old boxcars as sheds, around 25 years ago a lot of old boxcars were stored at a yard outside of town waiting for the underframes and trucks to be reused as container flats, you could buy the body for $50 as long as you hauled it away yourself. Wooden boxcars could be had even cheaper, you paid $5 and got a receipt made out for a 'quantity of scrap timber'. There was a news item in Railfan & Railroad magazine recently about an F45 shell that was to be used as motel rooms, I think by Isaac Walton Inn at Essex MT, it was painted in GN Big Sky Blue.
HOAs? Part of the criteria when we moved a few years back was that I didn't want to have to deal with any HOA telling me not to line-dry clothing or work on vehicles or telling me what colors I had to paint my house.
Amen to that brother! I would rather have to drive 20 minutes to the family owned country general/grocery than have someone tell me what I can or can't do on my property. Girlfriend feels the same way
