About 4-5 years ago, I was gifted a couple of Bachmann "Silver Series" cattle cars. By now they should be positively antique, rare collectibles. If I put them on, perhaps from the proceeds I can make enough to catch up on my yacht payments!
This must be one hell of an exchange rate. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kato-10-276...238454?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item4ad2cd2076
Just had to add this little Gem..Price is fine,but where do they get these crazy ideas? Farish? Custom painted? FINELY TUNED REFURBISHED LOCO?? This one must run almost two feet before it bursts into flames,LOL!! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Graham-Fari...893563?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item35d53e40fb
Well Graham Farish, part of Bmann now, does have N scale steam although some of the early stuff was suspect at times. And this would be a good starting point for a Forney type loco and some of the Eastern steam commuter power. This was one of the Lima products (see Spookshow's review) and even though it runs according to the seller it will probably end up needing a new motor and some tweaking of the pick-up to make it run better.
John,I've owned a dozen of these locos..I've never seen one that would run more than two feet without stalling,and it would have to be going 100MPH to do that.The only pickup on one side is the crummy little back truck!!When they do run,it sounds like a Korean War era helicopter. I've actually made two of them into nice northeastern passenger power with Rapido 0-6-0 chassis..They're pretty close to a Philadelphia & Reading loco..Need to take better pics,they're painted now,with a little more detail..
They're actually quit collectable,but useless.Finding one in one piece is unusual,and they probably go for 20-35 bucks in the condition that one is in.Just cracks me up,however,how.."Optimistic?" and just plain wrong his description is.Not even the right manufacturer..Sometimes,I think people are just too stupid to even bother looking.I just saw a Rapido S2 and an Atlas RS3 both listed as Rapido.It clearly says "Atlas" on the bottom of every one of their locos,this one just happens to have a Rapido label in the box..
Not really in the humor category... this is an impressive collection of the Atlas Wood Refrigerator cars, and not really that bad of a starting price (about $13.67 each, well below most of the MSRPs). http://www.ebay.com/itm/183-ATLAS-4...484685?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item35d547460d If someone wanted to go "all in" that would be a way to do it. Complete your accumulation in one shot!
Today I learned what a the term SD as in SD-7 means...Slightly deformed.... Like new.... http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIFE-LIKE-I...381178?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2c81b0617a
Well, I was simply going forward from your description of their capabilities. It's been ages since my last seeing one in person, and I didn't think much of it way back then.
But it says that the box has been opened, but the loco is new! I would have gone for it if the factory air was still in there, but look what happens when you open the box and try and squeeze the factory air back in, good thing it's from a trusted seller with 99.1% rating, this must be the .9% that's missing.
Once the factory air escapes, they shrink up like a prune. Same thing will happen to rolling stock but it just takes longer. What was this guy talking about???
From the ebay posting; “This listing was ended by the seller because there was an error in the listing.” Hmmmmm, maybe he figured out that it wasn’t quite “new”?
