Hi everyone, I am looking at a couple of Lima intercity passenger cars for my layout on ebay. Links below. Any information would help. They are $10 dollars a piece. Is this a good price? Thanks.
$10 isn’t too bad as long as you’re not using anything but 100 gauge track. I have a couple I bought cheap & they have deep flanges.
Make sure you’re prepared to either have an engine to haul them of modify them with KD’s.
Gordon
Are they actually HO, or are the really OO, which would be more common for British models of this type with the Hornby style hook couplers? Frankly, I think that $10 plus almost $9 in shipping is more than I would pay for old, probably not that well running models. Many have deep flanges, tend to be under guage compared to HO track, so tend not to run all that well.
For not much more, you can get brand new models from the UK from places like Hattons http://www.hattons.co.uk/products/bargains/21-bachmann-uk#coaches-and-carriages shipping is reasonable, and when they ship to the US they deduct the VAT so the models cost less than the prices you see.
You do realize they are European prototypes and are not typical of American designs?
Lima of Italy has been out of business for several years, and was eventually purchased by Hornby of England during the bankruptcy fire sale.
As mentioned, these are European prototypes and probably have the deep wheel flanges that do not like an Atlas turnout, even with code 100 rail.