My EX-wife threw away $2500.00 in O gauge trains on me while I was at work because she was pissed at me. That is why she is the “EX”-wife!
OUCH!!! That woman is lucky to be ALIVE!!![:0][}:)][;)] You are a better man than I.[swg]I believe that in some South American countries it is still legal to murder your wife for throwing out your trains.
Unfortunately, Dave or I wasn’t there to rescue them. Sorry.[V][:(][:p]
David,
A friend of mine’s wife (now ex of course) did that with his baseball card collection, worth at least that much.
Elliot,
I believe that in the northern areas of the Amazon Basin you can shrink their heads.
Dave V
I just recycled nearly 100% of the flex track and cork roadbed from an old n scale layout. Using a stiff putty knife I worked the track from the roadbed & then the roadbed from the plywood. Put it all in the bathtub & kept the mess covered with hot water until all the glue melted. Nearly all of it is still usable.
I never throw anything away if I can help it. (Not that this is always a good idea.)
Wayne
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WHAT AN UNSPEAKABLE SIN!!!
I would never even consider throwing away a train or any train-related item (or anything else for that matter) away! I’m one who belives that nothing should ever be thrown away unless it is completely detroyed and even then perhaps it shouldn’t be because it might be of use to someone. In fact, I save many things that other people would throw away and toss them on my HO layout to represent old junk or whatever that’s lying around (it looks good, too).
As far as finding trains that have been thrown away, a friend of mine was given a 1920’s Hafner Canadian Pacific tinplate passenger car by a friend of his who wasn’t interested in trains that had found it in a garbage dump. It was in mint condition and is worth over $300.
I was once given an engine that a coworker of my dad’s had found in his garage that he said he wold have thrown away otherwise.
Also, Richard Kughn, who in 1986 would become the president of Lionel, found his first Lionel train set in a garbage can as a boy.
Sask,
Betchya Lionel wishes they’d thrown away that train they copied. Talk about a $40 million Big Boy!!!
Would really be a collectors’ item.
I have everything I ever bought or was given in four scales - HO, O, G, and S. What my wife couldn’t believe was: I was buying old MR magazines. The only exception was some old brass track from an early layout.
Enjoy
Paul
Thrown away? No. I have, however, cannibalized some beyond recognition in the interest of using them to “improve” other models. How succesful I was I would rather not go into right now…
Tell her to look closer! [8D]
I nabbed a complete Varney set last year for 2 bucks. Tossed the fried transformer and brass track, sold the cars on ebay (for much more than 2 bucks) and kept the loco for myself! I doubt you will ever find brass, but some nice vintage plastic can be found! I’ve also found early Atlas, and some long forgotten plastic kits on yard sale tables. I must live amongst heathens!
As far as me personally , I did toss a Varney F unit years ago…I discovered they didn’t bounce when falling to the floor, and the frames will shatter much like glass.[:(]
Throw away anything except for brass track is a crime punishable by death. Not really but you’ll get yelled at. With the prices today and my economic situation anything that I can use later is kept. I have 5 tyco f7a shells that I will probably never use but there’s always the possibilty. But to answer the question no I have not thrown anything away.
Andy
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I have only 1 Locomotive and will NEVER part with it…It is like my soul now…
I lost one HO scale model that my dad gave me…it looked more like it was cast -iron instead of brass…heavy as hell it was…maybe cause I was 6 at the time? I dunno…
Personally I’d drop a bunch of money on fixing a train before I chuck it and buy another one…funny question for a thread though…
Never have, Never will throw a old train away! Who knows might need it for spare parts!
I had a girlfriend who was told by her sister that the trains would just have to go if she and I ever married. [:X] My girlfriend wisely told her sister that I would toss her out before I’d ever throw out a train! [:O]
I don’t even throw away brass track. I save the rails for junk yard scenes and the old ties for track side debris in the weeds.
I’ve stumbled on some bargains at antique malls, junk shops, flea markets, and yard sales. Let other people throw it out, I’ll keep it!
'scuse me, I gotta go browse eBay some more. [:P][:)][:D][^]
Some badly damaged Model Power and Tyco stuff. And a toy Bachmann F7 with a burnt out motor and damaged coupler pads. This was a long time ago.
How is it that I have had so many locos over the years, scrapped the dogs, never threw away the peices, and yet don’t even have a trace of some of them?
OK, there was that shed fire in '97. Wiped out a whole boneyard worth of stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever just put one in the trash. I’d remember. I did “set one free” once in the deep woods behind my house once (in '77) when it proved it wouldn’t be tamed. Never found it. I know I’m not alone here.
See “Have you ever lost your cool on your RR” topic Dan
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Throwing away $2500 in train stuff would be grounds for . . . . . . . well you know. Thou shall not . . . . . [}:)]
Just can’t say it. If you know what I mean.
Whatever do you mean officier, “Looks like my wife was run over by a train”. Isn’t that what happens when you make the engineer mad? [}:)] [;)]
I’ve thrown a car against the wall. Does that count. Don’t worry it was only old tyco and missing everything but the shell which was already broken. I kept it around just for that purpose. Better than my Anthearn genisis cars.
Oh throw out a car…no never done that.
Andrew Miller
Only used track,due to a move. It wasn’t worth trying to salvage.