I have oh, two three or four in a box (in ORIGINAL containers, I think!) plus some cars. Never did figure out what to actually DO with them. I think I even have a boxcar with some sports team logos on it. Folks know I'm into trains and give them to me. Dave
I had to dig them out. Three locos, two single dome tanks, the sought after caboose, stock car, LCL gondola, and the extremely rare european two axle log car. Gotta be worth hundreds, right? Rupees?
Hundreds of grains of sand? The bullets necessary to put those cars out of their misery are each worth more than an individual car....
hehehehe. I'm sure somebody will want them sometime. Make good scenery next to an engine terminal or the back track of a yard. I tried to give them away with no takers.
Yeah...but you put them each up on evilbait with a $20 opening bid, some clueless individual will HAVE to "win" them.
http://millerdecorativecollectibles.com/stp53fd2621b0f8c/readers-digest-train/ I think I have the trolleys shown in their boxes, too. Didn't know they were Reader's Digest. http://www.amazon.com/Readers-Limited-Southern-Railroad-~Piggyback/dp/B00BVK5AJ4 Only two left in stock! http://www.amazon.com/Readers-Southern-Railroad-Cars~Canister-Car/dp/B00BVK74B6 used from $7.90, "collectible" from $9.98! http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-3-READE...157576?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item27eafcc108 Best deal yet! $17.50! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Southern-Pa...149874?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2594f934b2 Hurry! Less than 18 hours to go to "win" this! Dave
I wish you would. It would be very interesting to watch what happens. You might end up with enough for a really nice weekend getaway!
I've got the same set! But, I have one car that you don't. The Rio Grande 2 bay covered hopper. Have a couple, I think!
Hey, I just found this one. Now all I have to do is wipe up the Diet Coke I sneezed all over my monitor. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Atlas-N-Sca...993488?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item338b099690 Wow. Just wow. "Welcome to Ebay Servicing! Care if I remove all your exterior door handles and roof racks as part of our service while we polish your tires smooth?" "Our resident grizzly bear, Brutus, will also push your roof down for that additional sporty look for no extra charge". Yet, 3 watchers and 100% feedback. I can hardly wait to see if somebody actually buys this thing.
Oh, Oh, I was right. He has more: 1) The rare Mantua "Tender Forward".... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-HO-...324590?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item4ad2fc37ae I'm sorry. I had one of these. No way in hell it can run that way minus the drawbar and pickup wire. 2) Pre-derailed AHM FM: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Scale-AH...049381?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item4abfa82ba5 (apparently the difference between "Serviced" and "Completely Serviced" is couplers added and locomotive actually on rails. 3) Apparently not. Authentic collision damage included: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Scale-Ba...182240?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3394a52220 4) Darn photographer broke it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Scale-Ba...668752?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item4ab5dbebd0 Wow. That GP40 may be a deal!
Mind has gone blank. Maybe it's due to shock over the asking price, but I cannot think of a manufacturer right now. Mehano or some such?
I was looking at the photo of it showing loco bottom. I see a lot of pitting on the side rods and linkages. Must have been found deep in an old basement.
The most valuable item there is the Mantua/TYCO Mikado, and it's a Version 3, so not interested. If it was a Version 2, I'd pay what I paid for the last one..twenty bucks including shipping. The collision damaged diseasemal is pretty amazing....broken steps, battery box askew, end railings bent...and it's a Botchman...they couldn't pay me to take it off their hands.
Mehano, from Yugoslavia. Appears to be Atlas but also imported by Life Like and Model Power. I wonder if he polished off he traction tires when he cleaned the wheels?
The incredibly ugly "1347" Santa Fe scheme is early Mehano via Atlas. I had that exact loco in 1972, bought at Whistle Stop Hobby Shop in Pasadena, right after I got off of Amtrak. I thought it was a rather neat looking loco at the time, which now greatly concerns me today. That's the one that was lubricated with vegetable oil and developed an engine compartment fire that melted a hole in the side of the shell. Welcome to N scale, this isn't your fathers HO! I've been thinking about getting another one of them (Mehano GP40's with the cool open fan vents) and taking out the motor and putting in a Seuthe smoke unit, and just running it as a smoke-erupting dummy out of the fan holes. Maybe paint it up PC. Just the thing to spice up an operating session - a locomotive fire.
