I recently cleared the Staten Island West of unused rolling stock being sure to salvage trucks KD’S etc and I am thinking of Has anyone else ever found the need to do this?
Oh my yes…
In my buying days (mostly coincident with the advent of Ebay), I built up rolling stock to 600 plus freight and 50 plus HO passenger cars. Most were in boxes on the shelves.
It soon hit me that my layout could only handle comfortably about 150 cars, and I also realized a lot of my cars didn’t make sense for my '50s era midwest/Texas layout.
I’m now down to 20 passenger cars and just over 250 freight cars - all the rest sold on Ebay over a period of 8 years…
It was a good decision, and I’m glad I did it.
Yes and in order to get top dollar I leave the KDs and metal wheels on…I get $10-12.00 a car instead of the going $3-5.00 for cars with plastic wheels and X2F couplers.
I have sold two of my duplicate Bev-Bel-Athearn 50’ ACF boxcars for $25.00 each since these were hard to find cars.One was Berlin Mills Railway and the other Erie Western.
No, I don’t think so. I believe what the OP was asking was did anyone remove the trucks and couplers from excess cars. I don’t think there would be much of a market for cars sans trucks and couplers on ebay or anywhere else.
I keep everything.
Never know when I might want to do some HO or O modeling.
Enjoy
Some of my earlist experiments with weathering were so botched that I basically abandoned the car: saved the frames, couplers and trucks, and tossed the body (or perhaps saved the doors, brake wheels, runing boards, and any other removable parts). Actually as a rule I did NOT toss the bodies, I saved them in a box and use them for testing various painting or detailing ideas without “learning” on a good car.
Dave Nelson
Well let’s see…I switched from O to HO the winter of 1987-88, and I still have all my old Atlas and Weaver cars in their old boxes with Kadee couplers attached. It’s been pointed out I could probably sell the couplers and get more than I would for the old cars. [;)]
Seriously, I guess I may have taken the Kadees off an old HO car I don’t use anymore, and used em on a new car. But really, couplers aren’t that expensive if you buy them in bulk. If I’m not using a car it normally just goes into storage ‘as is’.
As Maxman pointed out, I missed the point of the OP’s post…
To answer, I left the couplers as is when I sold them. If they were built, they had KDs, if not, they had what came with the kit (or RTR car of which I only had a few). The trucks remained as is too!
I’ll try to read more carefully in the future…