Just got home with my spoils from our local train show. God I love train shows. I found a set of Athearn Genesis Canadian National F7A for $150.00 (Canadian dollars)! They were on the used table but I don’t think they were ever out of the boxes. A P2K 52 foot drop end gondola in CP Rail for $5.00 and some misc decals.
But the best part of all was I found the same train set I had as a kid. Really. It’s a Tyco set and the locomotive was an Alco Century 430 (or as close to one as a Tyco ever came) painted in a fictional Canadiana scheme. And I got the whole set for ten bucks! Everything is still in the box and in absolute mint condition! One of the local train club members got it from a coworker who found it and was going to throw it out. [:O]
Wow! Does that thing bring back memories! I spent hours running that thing around an oval that had one siding my dad put on a sheet of plywood. Many a Matchbox cars met their demise at the grade crossing on that railroad. [:D] I’m going to have to put a decoder in that baby.