I was surfing through eBay looking for train stuff, when I stumbled upon this:
No way I can afford it, but I thought it was so cool I just had to share it with you guys. From the size and everything, it looks like it’s N-scale? (I model HO, so I don’t have a good feel for how big an N layout is)
Maybe if I win the lottery between now and Saturday afternoon, I’ll bid on it! [:p]
This guy must be quite the woodworker. The table itself looks to be a fantastic job. I don’t think he’ll find a seller, however.
Very nice. But $18,000.00? What’s this guy smoking?[:D]
Jeff
I could buy a pretty decent car for $18,000.
I’ll build you one for Half that… [:D]
$18,000 !?!?!? [:O] [:O] [:O] And its not even DCC !!! [V]
aww come on , 18k isn’t a bad price , it includes delivery which is going to be huge because the layout is in hawaii , and the builder comes along to show you how to run it
LOL
Isn’t $18,000 a little steep?
And what does it cost to fly from Hawaii and stay in a motel for 2-3 days?
Tom
Maybe if he drops his price abit. With this sort of item you rarely get what you put into it (ask a hot rodder)
That is a very interesting, well made layout. I like it a lot…he/she has accomplished a great deal in that small space. I would pay between $3-4K for that, but no more…assuming I had the dough.
I agree with most of you guys. It is nice, but for me it is not $18,000 worth of nice. I think for 18K I could build something I would be far happier with. Probably I could build something I liked better for less than half of that.
I definately could build something I liked better at a fraction of the price. If I could afford to drop 18K on trains all at once, I’d check with Dunam Studios or some pro and see what they could come up with.
at least one too many zeros (but that’s nothing anyway, right?)
He’ll sell it to some Internet millionaire who got out before the bubble burst. Unfortunately, the only kind of person who will pay this much for a layout is someone who really won’t appreciate it.
It takes 2 adults to open the top. I suppose that means you have to call a friend over to fix a derailment. (Oh, silly me! The servants can do that!)
How stupis is this? You could do that whole setup for less than 500 bucks.
for 18k US i could renovate my basement to give me double the space i have now AND build a really nice layout
This is pretty crazy.
I know I’ve seen plans available for a similar, if not identical, setup and you could have a local carpenter build it for you for a few hundred bucks if you didn’t have the skills to do it. Then a few hundred more for the railroad stuff, plus the pleasure of doing it…
Just doesn’t make sense.
Mike Tennent
WOW! Thats allot of coin! I do allot of woodworking and cabinet building, He used what looks like Tiger Maple, which is hard to find! It is a really nice peice of work the whole thing! It might be caught up in a estate and a freind is trying to sell it for a family member. I bought a very old HO layout, it was 16ft by 10ft on a auction a couple of years ago, also got all the extras, engines, cars, buildings, parts… you name it! The extras was over a full size pickup load, I paid $750 for the whole thing, there were over 150 engines alone, that were Athearn &Atlas! I spent most of all of 4 weeks sorting, and sold most of it in large potions through a freind who goes to allot of train shows, and swap meets!
$18k Thats what I paid for my new kitchen addition, and I made my own cabinets!
Still not a single bid on it as of 10:00amEST…