More eBay Humor - O Gauge

LegomanBill Feb 28, 2013

  1. ScaleCraft

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    http://www.ebay.com/itm/HUGE-Postwa...253619?hash=item1a0c5827b3:g:5-wAAOSwqYBWmYWh

    Mix and match. Pre-war box coupler "set", if engine, tender, gon and caboose is a "set"...very recent US Steel girder bridge.....postwar gang car...H0 power pack (?), not sure of all the plastic bits with the POSTwar trestle set....looks like a MARX bridge.....boy, for this mish-mash, 475BIN is way too high unless you see one thing you need and sell off the rest.

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    http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-LIONEL-TRAINS-/121913284984?hash=item1c62991978:g:yjIAAOSwoudW2Lmx

    Warning! Graphic! Get your Tetanus Shots updated before you look!

    New Joisey....found in a flooded basement?
    Marx, Standard Gauge, 0 three rail, is that Half Zero in there too....and some is so badly rusted the rods are rusted away to disconnected stubs.
    Some of that stuff would be worth some money (like the CP Banff Park) if they were thrown in a box, rusted to hades, missing parts.
    The $5.75 shipping really is the value IF you had a glass bead blaster and the parts to try to fix this stuff.
    Any idea what the windings on the motors are like after all that time in water?
    Solder joints?
    E-unit fingers?
    The lithographed stuff with all the rust is junk..sorry.

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    Looks like a bunch of yard sale stuff was all scraped together. Transformer works in one mention. Then another that the stuff was not tested. Then how do they know the transformer works? BTW- That's an HO Marx transformer.
     
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    Agreed. Sadly virtually all is ruined. Post-Hurricane Sandy basement cleanup?
     
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  12. BoxcabE50

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    Maybe it's been in a house fire?
     
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    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-Trai...332228?hash=item3d15e4f7c4:g:LkEAAOSwGYVW8iNp

    Some folk's idea of valuable garbage.
    The (possibly) 565 boiler is Flyer, they made a Reading 565 which was a 4-4-2, but this one has nothing really usable. Stripped for parts. Value, zero.
    The 2025 Lionel is missing boiler front and headlight socket, trailing truck, drawbar, looks like the rear truck shouldered screw is snapped off in the bottom of the ashpan. Rusted, scratched, nicked, missing LH crosshead, main rod, eccentric crank, hardware...maybe ten bucks for parts and that's a stretch.
    Notice no tenders at all....must have previously sold them for "more PROFIT!".
    Fundimensions gondola...value about $2.50.
    One of those ZW is hurt. Threaded connections on back rusted badly (and how much of that water is now in the windings?), nameplate ripped off, lenses missing, base rusted, that power cord is pretty bad....anyone who buys that is buying a complete unknown condition...may never work....other one, cord for sure, filthy....

    Seems like 250 is a bit steep for something as apparently bad as this.

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    Maybe a few useful external parts from those transformers. I'll take the lot, if they send it to me for free.
     

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