Bet it's impressive, BUT...

Yes was meant to go to Tatans post.

LOL! But coborn, I thought you were a wealthy Hiawatha fan!

There is a couple of even more expensive brass passenger car sets on ebay for even more… I have some older brass locomotives but nothing anywhere near that pricey. That kind of price tag doesn’t put that passenger consist anywhere but in a display cabinet (even if I could afford it or even want to buy it).

At 15 cars (plus locomotive), that’s gotta be an amazingly long train - even in HO. So how long do you figure all those cars coupled together with the locomotive would be? 24’?

Tom

A couple of years ago I visited a tinplate layout during a regional convention. This guy had two Lionel State Sets setting on his display shelves. I had never seen one of those before - pictures but never the real McCoy. He had purchased both of them from the same seller some years before for over $25K. To me that’s a lot of money; to him he got what he wanted. Apparently he was an attorney and could afford it. I know that he was living up in an area of town where, when I had been selling (ha ha ha) real estate some years before, houses were going for a quarter of a mil.

Guess if I had it I could be eccentric.

Too be honest I heard a rumor that Walthers might be building one of these sets in Plastic time will tell tho.

Apparently they are worth it to somebody… A train like that belongs on the rails though, I hope he’s not buying them to sit in boxes on a shelf in a dark closet…

The seller(Dan’s Train Depot) buys most of his e-bay trains from estate auctions. I’ve been to his Hobby Shop in Ocala,FL and it’s a great place. He has a regular store front shop & a back room that is full of boxes & boxes of trains he buys at these estate auctions. If you can’t find an item, he’s probably got it. If you’re ever in or near Ocala, stop in but be prepared to spend most of a day there. You’ll get 1st rate service in the store or on the internet from this guy.

who would pay that much…you haft to be rich… there nice but i could think of a better way to spend my money for my layout

466 per car is way high, consider this train is 1952 in perfect shape. if anything each car would be 100 each, but really now…

and it even has ONE bidder… wheeeeee!!! wish I was the seller

I know they are doing the Empire Builder, but haven’t heard anything about a Hiawatha yet. That would be great, ALTHOUGH I wouldn’t get too excited about any passenger train release from Walthers after they botched up the Super Chief the way that they did.