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Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I know most of you dont really like E-bay but you can occasionally find something good there. So far I have had good luck and last week I found a 40th anaversary Model Railroader car for sale. I won the auction for about $4.00 +5 for shipping. This car is 23 years old and has not been built. I think I am going to build it tho a rail car needs to be used and not just stored in a box some where. Here are a few pics of it. enjoy

Here is the car. It is kinda hard to tell but the car is shiny gold and all the printing is in excelent shape still.

Here is the box. I wish the kits were still the price of 20 years ago.

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I remember back when I used to get Athearn BB kits for that kind of price. That was the early and mid 80’s.

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Massey that is a 50th Anniversary Car. I have one just like it downstairs in the box!

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Good catch! I can’t get a decent loaf of bread for under CDN$3.00 these days.

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I had one of them once. Used it to make an Atlantic Coast Line caboose, ala Jim Six, around 1987.

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I had one and a 25th …If I remeber right it was blue and silver…Cox 47

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i had the change to buy that, the 25, and the 75, but i was short on cash

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I got one of those unassembled, as well as the 60th year MDC Roundhouse car off eBay last year. Missed the Atlas 75th box car though.[:(]

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I personally have nothing against ebay - or rattle snakes either. You just have to be careful about how you do business with both of them… I only buy from established businesses with good feedback that are willing to let me return the item or items for a full refund if I’m not happy with it or them.

I also recently got a good deal on an Atlas Nickel Plate Road caboose that I paid $15.00 for through “Buy It Now”, while another one just like it went for $56.00 on auction…

Tracklayer

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Did I miss something here? Is my arithmetic flawed? Let’s see!!! 1934 plus 75 equals 2009; every calendar in my house seems to be having an identity crisis because they all say 2007!

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They were selling these things at the Company Store at the 1984 national convention in Kansas City; Kalmbach apparently had about fifty thousand of these things made up and they were still trying to get rid of them years later if I recall. They were produced only in HO Scale and when I inquired at the Kalmbach booth at the trade show as to why Model Railroader was not offering a fiftieth anniversary car in N Scale I got met with a healthy snub.

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He must mean the Athearn 70th anniversary boxcar, unless this is a prediction.

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Nice!!!

Glad to see you found a real GEM on Ebay!

Yes, every now and then something really nice and unique pops up for sale on Ebay and the seller turns out to be a GOOD GUY !!!

Happy for you!

Enjoy!

Ed

aka The K4Kid

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good morning everyone, yea my oops I ment the 50th anaversary car. That is what I get when I am talking to my wife and typing at the same time. I would love to get my hands on the other anaversary kits, so I will keep my eyes open at the shows and stuff that I go to.

Massey

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Why would you even contemplate NOT building it, isn’t the concept of purchasing a kit to assemble it? what would be the reason for someone to leave it unassembled in a box?? some sort of purchasing phobia?? get that baby rolling soon.