This joker has had two offers a year ago, which he or she declined. I can't imagine why......... http://www.ebay.com/itm/290763594909 Another case of naïve sellers.
"Hard to Find" LOL....No, LOLOLOLOL. Hard to find I guess if you never go on Ebay. Never go to a train show and sit alone in your room blind to the world.
..........or all the Athearn blue-box sites found on social media. Makes the C-note I paid for an Atlas Union Pacific U30C look downright smart........and I have several blue-box Athearns.
Thirty bucks if you HAD to have one and all the factory add-on bits were there (not shown in photos)? If no parts included, fifteen? Of course, we probably have some folks who would think that was a bargain.
I know ladies can be expensive... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161318340214?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
Yikes! If my conversion is correct, $1177.00 USD? Gotta be a big time typo. Has other items showing at prices such as 7.25.
I don't care if there are 70+ cars, I still wouldn't pay this much for a bunch of old Tyco, Life Like, etc... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ho-train-lo...594037?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3a98332db5
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-train-MA...554013?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item58b62d735d late Tyco/Mantua cutaway Mike....only seventy-five HUNDRED clams! Hurry!
Hurry! Hurry! Big lot of TYCO...and an MRC DualPack to boot! Only twenty-five hundred clams! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tyco-steel-...147988?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item418808bbd4
When I went through my brothers and nephews Half Zero stuff to sort it...found a whole bunch of that "steel" track. No way could I get it to work. Resorted to light sandpaper, still such bad contact we threw it all out...all of it. Kept the old, old Atlas brass....wiped right down and worked first time.
The only good thing you could do with steel track is to used the rails as flatcar loads, or as scenery detail. Otherwise, perhaps scenic & weather it to a fare-thee-well and model it as abandoned track. Otherwise, off to the scrapyard.
I have actually had very good success with steel rail...but it's been at least half a century. Had some originally laid on Half Zero Tru-Scale.....stayed cleaner than brass....had it for a while in 2-rail 0....but solid, and not a mix of metals. That Tyco and probably Botchman stuff is some type of composition....and when it corrodes or breaks down or whatever it does....you cannot clean it short of a bench grinder, and even that is up for discussion.
