This has probably been done before but…
Whats a few of the best deals you came across on a locomotive or rolling stock (any scale)?
for me it was an Atlas Geep 40 for $10 (and it runs!) and an Atlas Cyndrical hopper for $3 1/2.
Hmm… at the moment I’d have to say my Mehano Mogul for $30… although I’m scoping out ebay and (if all goes well) I’ll pick up a Rivarossi Pacific for $28 shipped…
reminds me of my friend Steve. He picked up Key Brass Imports bigboy #4020. He keeps braging that he got it for 500, and he says that today it’s worth about 3500. (only 50 of them made.)
My Lionel Veranda Turbine - got it for about $300 - $395 list at the time I think - check them out on E- thing - I’ve seen $1200+!![:D]
P2K GP30 for $30 shipped!!
Atlas Master GOLD SD24, 1/2 MSRP.
P2K Conrail SD50 for $40, weathered.
Brass SD40-2 painted BC Rail, $50 at LHS. Would not do curves but only required new universals.
So the money I saved I spent on making it a CP Rail unit.
[:)]The best deal I ever got was when a mrr friend bought 16 Athearn box cars at a yard sale for $17. He decided that they didn’t fit in with his layout time and offered them to me for the price he paid. A few were missing a door but they all had KD couplers and some were weathered well. The yard sale was near my house and I didn’t even know about it. It pays to have good friends.[angel]
Walter in Columbia, TN
I was looking for 10 modern auto racks to fill out my limited roster that I was planning, and I thought it might take months to find and purchase them all, but at a show in town last year, a dentist was selling his entire brand new set that he only ran once at a club through a friend of his. I purchased all 10 Walthers modern autoracks with steel wheels and Kadee couplers for $20 Canadian each. WOW! The entire roster in one place and at half price of retail! I immediatly went and bought some lotto tickets as well, to no avail. Oh well, still running the racks though!
Steve P. Welcome[#welcome] Walter in Columbia,
Walter in Columbia, TN
Yeah, I got one of those deals too. I assumed since it was a Gold that it had sound - NOT. Really got ripped off on that deal.
Huh, do you mean HO or O?
Walthers HO Budd passenger cars for $19.98 instead of the $34.00+ they usually go for.
The 3 sound equipped BLI Hudsons I got from Trainworld for $130 each.
Atlas billboard reefers in ho for $8.00
The guy you bought it from must’ve taken the sound out. All Atlas Master Gold Series engines come with Sound and DCC.
Bachmann Spectrum Heavy 4-8-2 Mountain from Micro-Mark, of all places, for $77.50. List is $200, most discounters are about $170.
Picked up MDC cars for 75% off and Atlas cars for 50% off the other day. That wasn’t bad I thought.
Two Spectrum K-4’s - forty bucks for the two of them.
The second was really more of a throw-in, as it didn’t run right. Upon closer inspection, it had obviously taken the Newtonian Route from the layout to the floor. A little TLC with the siderods and they’ve both run like tops ever since[tup].