Perhaps a good cleaning may help it. The going rate for old athearn blue boxes are about the same depending on what locomotive it is.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mantua-208-...390?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f69234d6 "smoke free environment". Starting bid sixty bucks. Metal parts rusted (look at drive axle ends). Parts in a plastic bottle...no idea if they're all there. Leaf spring caboose trucks. Now. Look at the air tank on the loco. Look at the wavy cab roof. Now look at the tender shell. For parts, whole thing five bucks seller pays shipping. It's junk, beyond hope. Lead truck casting exploded. Claims "new", unopened....yet with caboose trucks and loco parts in an old glass bottle....I don't think so. (there was an early version with 4-wheel tender trucks, but I don't think this is it). Plus, they didn't come with cab and pilot/cylinders attached, did they? Mine didn't. Dave
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Mantua...754559?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2c815a867f RARE Mantua loco for almost $150....I think some parts might be offered in another auction somewhere? Dave
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Penn-Line-H...953?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2edd630219 Twenty five bucks for an instruction sheet. SHEEEEET! Three bucks shipping for the cost of a postage stamp. Dave
This thing has been listed forever. http://m.ebay.com/itm/390379787283?nav=SEARCH I don't know anything about the manufacturer of this but to have it listed this long I'm sure its not worth the asking price.
An antique it might be, but this is probably something for the dollar or two range. There may be collectors of such items, but certainly not enough to pressure prices that much upward.
Picture is pretty fuzzy for me. It sure would help to know an actual brand name. If it has been on a while, I'd say you are probably correct.
And fifty cents postage. For the asking, it needs to actually include the contents of the original box..and probably box....
This right here...somebody in the DC world definitely wanted a DC controller with the ability to run several trains at once. Though the feedback it gives you makes it interesting. The asking price makes you wanna go DCC. You are hardcore into running DC trains if you get one of these. http://m.ebay.com/itm/121559257048?nav=SEARCH This pack costs more than a digitrax zephyr pack. If I had to choose between the two....well looks like I'm going DCC!
Oh and this one! Soon to have a walk around unit. Seems nifty to me. They always say nice has a price... http://m.ebay.com/itm/271567705774?nav=SEARCH
The deal with this one is voltage and current. Usable for "G"....needs 18+VDC to rails, needs.....lots of amps (good units 10+A). Start in with dcc on G with grades and big engines....power districts, boosters, high current low smoke decoders, this is cheap. Dave
I see your point. I guess in the functionality from an HO perspective its a lot. I didn't really take the blinders off for the larger scales.
This isn't pure "HO", but still leaves a person wondering: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOn30-LOCOM...015?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5b0ce26ad7 This book is still in print, available from the publisher any day at $23.99 plus postage. So, where does a price of $74.99 originate?
I was looking to identify a tender. Searched Penn Line as it sort of looked like it. Found this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Penn-Line-H...631?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ede023e77 It ain't. Mantua. 50's cast. No frame (peg mount). I had to double check. Matches my Mantua cast tenders exactly. Now, I know what they're worth. I wouldn't pay the asking for a complete Mantua Mikado or Pacific, running (guaranteed) in paint. Dave
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bachmann-80...501?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4626733e3d Not only would I never pay that much for any Botchman, but it's an odd way to classify a diseasemal as a 4-4-0....and when did Baltimore and Ohio become abbreviated at MKT?
Looks like yet another decimal point slippage. Isn't "M-K-T" the identification initials used by the Florida East Coast Railway? Or was it Burlington Northern RR? If they'd put up a picture of and Edsel, at least the ad would be humorous.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HO-Gaugemas...ys_Hobbies_Model_Railways&hash=item1c4d767972 I know. Seller says he knows nothing about trains. But he came up with a number. He's selling used, no idea if it works, for almost $620 US plus shipping, when the exact same items (2) are available NEW from GaugeMaster for 80 pounds for one, 165 pounds for the other. That's 245 pounds. $368US and change. He's asking almost double new, warranteed cost for used. MORON.
