Ah. So. Read way down in the description, Mikado Standard Tender MRC 875731 N Southern Railway USRA 2 8 2 Mikado Standard Tender with Sound DCC... Windoze 10 auto sentence structure at play.
Good grief -- that's an astonishing listing. How could anyone acquire that much rolling stock? If placed on a track, I figure the train would stretch 350 Feet!
Not if you collect them and pack them in a tote and bury it in the back of the shed somewhere...only to rediscover it years later when you finally get around to cleaning the shed up a bit...
In the words of my wife, the only difference between collecting and hoarding is available storage space. I'm not a regular viewer of American Pickers, but I sometimes watch a segment and am stunned at the amount of stuff some people "collect" and I think too of their children who will someday have to dissolve these massive piles.
Those "lucky" children often seem to be divided into two camps - those who have a highly inflated notion of what the stuff is actually worth and those who can't load it into a dumpster fast enough.
I recall one segment of Pickers with an octogenarian fellow with perhaps twenty old automobiles, most of which had been outside for decades and were rusted out or wrecked beyond reclamation. He shared that he was "going to restore them someday". While I admire his aspirations and youthful outlook, there comes a time in life where a gut check may be in order. Oh well, I guess we're all wired in different ways. The last time I was out looking for car parts, I opened the hood on this junked Mitsubishi and saw this toothy beast staring at me none too happy! I then decided that whatever parts remained in the engine bay were his. I quietly closed the hood to protect the possum's home and went on to another car.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Concrete-Vibrator-small-scale-small-job-/321956130835?hash=item4af614b013:g:utwAAOSw5IJWebw8 Totally without words for this one................. are there people really using concrete on layouts.....................
This isn't the first time we've seen construction equipment posted here in Toys & Hobbies. Makes you wonder.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/N-Scale-Bac...370721?hash=item4af98d5ba1:g:yUMAAOSwG-1WyOFZ Sent message to this guy that the enginein the photo is HO scale. His response was "why do I think this". I said the couplers and the detailing. than he sent me this message " sorry I am holding this engine in my hand and it is N scale" I have seen more and more HO scale listed as N lately.
The listing says " It is Union Pacific 866." But, the picture clearly showes a Santa Fe engine, with a not-so clear number that at least can be seen to NOT be "866." So, this guy's picture is NOT what he is selling, OR his discription does not go with that listing. So, what he was "holding in his hand" MIGHT be N scale, but it is NOT what is shown in the listing picture.
That seller must have mixed up the photos with those from another one of his listings for an HO Bachmann F9 that shows an N scale model.
Not sure if this listing has been posted or not? First thought: A mis type, http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Rare-At...371097?hash=item3f63076e99:g:CW8AAOSw3mpXOSMJ Then today I ran across his other listings and figured he'd eaten the entire load of Mushrooms? http://www.ebay.com/sch/onlyaznpride/m.html?item=272244371097&hash=item3f63076e99:g:CW8AAOSw3mpXOSMJ&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 Were these special runs? I don't recall seeing them announced?
