This diecast shell is an interesting item. Aside from the FA, what other North American diesel locomotive bodies has Arnold done in metal? Unlike the eBay offering, my Arnold F has the lower portion of the front mounted to the truck and the number boards are different too. I'm just wondering what the story is here.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266415723280?hash=item3e079d5310:g:X0UAAOSwvGFlB04T&amdata=enc:AQAIAAAAwFI+m6/CbEsO9DTbLZ2qufwlo/la0iEMWJGRKS2y6bbzKOtEx/+KPEau7mJVC5MAVtitoDoeXttO6zXXqiADZoipEZg2VH2nTkSRfQtmyvttrpUhftXtMSbWcrCB+P32mmSnwuicI50SN6c7m988IUcdt9WaukUEztQ+IPipikzqkNTRdw24E7txmwDGcR5px8hEsWAjqE5ap/rbL5nLzquE6MmiR0Wfkwyai0H6VH5KtgZoJSVAor3PLh6j4l96xA==|tkp:Bk9SR7CL7uzUYg The hideous ugliness
I don't recall an Arnold diecast shell. During those earlier years, there were aftermarket shell offerings, from various sources. Brass, Pewter and other metal materials. Some were improvements, some were rather crude.
Someone bid on it !!!! I'm betting there are used N scale shotgun shells and a half cooked squirrel inside that thing !!
$114.99<RARE Minitrix Amtrak N Scale 51 2010 00 Diesel Locomotive Train Engine Excellent | eBay, I would thought $30.00. description.. Item comes from an adult collection and was stored away for years. Locomotive is in like new condition as shown. Engine has not been tested and is being sold as is. Engine may have never been used. Looks to be new. With seeing this > Engine has not been tested and is being sold as is.< This is why I thought $30.00+ even if the seller states RARE.. Tom
I guess one of the trucks floated away... I mean, it is a helium tank car... (Note: While this is one of the pricier Atlas First Generation cars, it ain't THAT pricey...)
Well, I HAD asked about when we would see the 2023 Banquet Car, so I guess I put that out there... Next question: How many more will now appear? Also: Yes, the label is, well, mislabeled as a 40 Foot Double Sheathed Wood Refrigerator Car with Vertical Brake Wheel, AKA the MTL 49000/049 series body style. I suspect that all of them have that label and this is not a RARE HARD TO FIND MAJOR ERROR!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Also, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I remember in the mid-1980s when Kadee/M-T cars were fetching stratospheric prices. Someone made the discovery that a CN boxcar model was spelled Canadian on one side and Canadien on the other, and decreed it a "mistake" of great rarity. A number of collectors jumped in with wallets open, until someone with sense pointed out many CN cars are painted this way and that the Kadee/M-T car was prototypical. Ooops. I found the French spelling on this car. [Montgomery, AL 04/23/1993]
Well, there are the "RARE ERROR CARS" where Kadee and/or Micro-Trains printed the IEN and IAN versions on the opposite sides of the car from where they belonged. Yes, CN has guidelines for this. No, I don't know what they are...
Ah, so that was it then. I wonder if these have retained a notoriety that still translates to higher worth? I've never been much of a collector, but I used to enjoy the Captain Blaster newsletter back then.
Here's a must-have N scale combine. The seller says that he has no idea if it's supposed to be warped (melted would be more correct) like it is, so he's selling it "as is" for only $30 and adds a final line that: Everything appears to be in excellent shape. Link: Arnold Rapido old-time combine Cheers
Here's another winner. For the modest sum of only $440 or "best offer", one can have this literal train wreck of a locomotive. There are no pilot wheels making it an 0-6-0 although there may have been a set at some point. Obviously, the pilot and stack are very poorly affixed add-ons. The only Bachman I can remember with a sloped tender was an 0-6-0 but then it had 3 domes and did not have a Belpaire squared-off firebox. Link: Bachmann 51461 N Scale Baldwin 4-6-0 Cheers
Ack! That's a Minitrix 0-6-0, a wild west variant they offered. The eBay tender is a mismatch. It may be Bachmann, but I'm not sure. The nice little turned brass bell is missing as well.
Hardcoaler, Thanks for posting the likely original. and now we know it was sort of a trainwreck before its current iteration. It was always amazing to me that some of the early model train companies thought all they had to do was add an old-fashioned pilot, an oil lamp, a funnel smoke stack, and a funky paint job onto a semi-modern train shell and call it an "old west" model. Cheers
Ha, yep. Arnold Rapido did the same with their 0-6-0. This is mine and it still runs very well, along with Rapido's old west passenger cars. Its stack and bell are turned brass, and a heavy cylindrical weight fills the boiler. Kadee/M-T once offered a coupler conversion kit for this locomotive that turned it into a 2-6-0. A neat idea, but the adaptation involved cutting the center out of the "cow catcher" to house the coupler. I couldn't bring myself to do that!
