Earlier tonight, I was getting ready to box up and sell my Life Like Union Pacific 2-8-8-2 Mallet to a friend of mine for $175.00, but after putting it on the tracks with a mix of cars and a caboose for one last spin around the layout, I found that I just couldn’t bring myself to sell it. I didn’t waste any time, and gave the guy a call to tell him the bad news. He sounded a little disappointed, but said he understood what it was like, and told me if I ever changed my mind to let him know.
Have any of you ever had second thoughts about parting with a loco ?.
got my first Lionel train set in '66 for xmas when I was 9 and had an elec. slot car track on a 4x8 my dad built too. boxed the trains up after a couple yrs and sold them in '73. regret it now, o well, water under the bridge
I don’t know what happened to the Fleischmann set I had as a kid, but I have every thing train related that I have bought or was given since 1971.
Enjoy
Paul
I think we’ve all parted with things from our childhoold and regretted it later. My brother and I have had:
an Eldon slot car set
each had our own Lionel trainsets [:(]
a 4x8 layout made with Marklin trains
Now, that I’m older, I appreciate these things more, and I’ve started probably what will be my last layout (I’m 51) and when I pass, I will pass my train stuff to my son. Luckily, I built a layout with him when he was younger and he STILL appreciates model railroading. And when she’s older, I hope he’s able to do the same thing with his daughter.
I had a Bachman Plus 4-8-4. Despite what people had told me, it was a decent runner. I was convinced the it could not be converted to DCC (Tony said he wouldn’t do it.) and pards here said it was tough. Now I would have not thought twice about doing the work myself.
But I gave it to a kid at our train club. This week he brought it back to the club to run on 00. It ran as smooth as ever, looked good and pulled strong. I winced.
A little later the kid came to me and told me he had an MDC kit Shay he had been meaning to give me. He had started it, just barely, and given up. The Shay fits my era, the 4-8-4 does not. I guess it worked out. Only I already have 3 engine kits in front of it.
Well I haven’t been doing this long enough to accumulate enough Loco’s to even think about selling. However I do have about 20 more loco’s than I need. I imagine I will have all the loco’s I need soon.
Terry[(-D]
I had a chance to sell my old Model Power 0-4-0. It no longer ran, but it had to go. Needless to say, I couldn’t get rid of it. Nobody wanted it! As a result, it’s been “preserved” and sits in the town square
Let’s not even talk about the triple-white 1964 Ford Galaxie XL 500 convertible I sold for $350 in 1976 or the 1965 Shelby GT350 I sold in 1975 for $1000. (sigh)
Beleive it or not, the other day I imagined a poll here (I know, I’ll see someone about it soon…hopefully it’s a passing thing). [B)][:I] I imagined the question, “Which loco would you give up if you were required to part with one?”
Honestly, I went through each one and could not settle on a single loco. The one that is the least fun right now is the Heritage 0-6-0 due to its light pulling power, and the sound is tinny and week. However, it is my most detailed loco, and runs ultra slow and smooth. So, I imagined giving that one up, and immediately felt terrible. As it happens, I am going to return it to the fellow who installed my first DCC and sound to see if he can improve the sound at least. Maybe he could shoehorn a Tsunami into it…anything has to be better than the raspy, noisy drive the 100LC currently imparts to it.
Well I remember my first engine, a gp20 by AHM. I saved and saved and when i finally got $16.59 I went and bought it. BN #5628. Plastic wheels withtraction tires. BuT I loved that engine. That was 1976 or so. Now 30 years later I pulled it out of the scrap drawer and said I will sell it along with the GP20 Reading lines with broken steps and all. Needless to say i couldent do it. So I preformed a capital rebuild and made the body fit on an athearn frame new can motor and all. Its a great runner, but for the time and money i spent i could have just got a LL P2k GP 20 and painted it. But I cant part with it. Liked it so much I did the reading lines and a santa fe and all my old engines and now they proudly sit in my desplay case next to the new ones.
Well for me I still have all my train stuff that I had as a kid. It is a Tyco GP-20 BN and Chattanooga Choo Choo, and a Tyco Super Train (the one that could go up the walls and around a loop) I just cant part with them even tho they are not that great they have alot of memories for me.
What I did part with tho was my 1966 Mustang GT, 289 “A” code engine with the BW toploader 4 speed tranny that had 58K origonal miles on it. I bought it home looking horrible but there was only minor rust in the trunk and no dents in the body. I spent most of my senior year saving money and fixing the car up.
This is what it looked like the day I started the body work.
Last picture of the car before I sold it. I am the goofy guy with glasses and the carrot top is my best friend.
I sold it cause I needed a daily driver car and that car was more of a sunny day driver. The new owner has made it into a show car and has taken it back to its home in CA.
When I went with the train show in Springfield i brough along a Athearn Gp38 to sell i traded it for $40 store credit. They guys stuff sucked!!! It was all rapido couplers,dirty ,old and [censored], I settled for 3 videos and a 2 LL cars[:(!] I dont care about the loco it was of no use to me any more asi swicthed over to N scale. But i wish i had sold it to someone else. That guy was a theif a ripoff and scheister!!! Tim
ok well i can officially say that i am still a big kid and still have everything from my first layout from when i was 12 ok so its only been 10 years now but hey u have to start somewhere right hahaha
I was THIS close to putting my Atlas ATSF SD26 on ebay the other night. But I couldn’t do it, I just couldn’t do it. I’m selling it to local hobby shop instead, I know the owner and I’ll feel better knowing that the chances are a respectable model railroader will pick it up.
Been there, unfortunately did that. My stupid move was trade in '67 Shelby GT350 on a '69 Torino.(how [censored] dumb is that with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight?) The family was growing and yada, yada, yada.
Worked with a guy in '68 who bought a '65 GT350 for $1,900. Came with fiberglass under panel in front with ducts to front brakes. Had one ride with him in IT and can understand your loss(sigh). That was not a subtle automobile!
A story re his GT350. Driving to work(imagine this car as your commute)on turnpike he felt a “hunting” which required constant driver attention. Being mechanically inclined and young he decided to take a day off and replace the rear end with a Ford performance stocker. Didn’t solve the problem so he decided to call Detroit Locker re the original rear end and the problem. He was asked,“Did you check the tire pressures?”. Uh…(long silence). Checked tire pressures and the Locker went back in with no problems.
Dumb and young re my '67. Everybody was saying how light the Mustang and imitators were in the rear end. Well my '67 had snow tires thrown on in the winter and with a full tank of fuel I negotiated winter including the day after drive in post nor’easter snow without any trouble. Turnpike and parkways had one lane fully open and numerous cars had been abandoned. It was my drive to work and I had to get to work.
I think we can look back and say, “If I had invested in the cars I liked back then I would have blown any other investment out of the water.” Leno’s onto something, “You know stocks, I know cars(really, really good cars).”
Back on subject: Yep, a streamlined Lionel Hudson passenger set. I wanted the realism of American Flye
Or the 1965 Mustang notch back with leather interior, 289 4 on the 4 floor I traded in for a 4 door Torino sedan in 1971. Hey, I had two small kids by then and the Mustang 1. wasn’t big enough and 2.wasn’t worth more than a few hundred dollars — yet. I regretted it a whole lot later on.
I sold some P2K FA1 A units and 1 B unit on line a few years ago. I wish I had kept them. At lease one of them went to a guy who was attending RPI in Troy, NY and he was kind enough to run my former loco on the NEB&W. I wish I had some pictures of that!
