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Published: 2013-12-28 21:43:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 164; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 1
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I bought these a month or two ago from a nice guy who was very much a "car guy" (he had half a dozen old cars in two garages!) and was into trains on the side. He told me to give him anything for them and I made a rather meager offer of every dollar I had on me, which was quite happily accepted.The main points of interest from this purchase are:
A Lionel 816 Hopper Car. (I have already restored this one, there are images of it in my gallery.)
A Lionel prewar bridge in the original box. (This is currently on the layout.)
A Lionel 820 Searchlight Car in rough shape. (This is a project I am saving for the spring, as I can't exactly do paintwork right now.)
Two Lionel 600-series coaches and a 816 baggage car in rough shape. (Another project for the spring.)
A large Standard Gauge Lionel observation car in rough shape. (I am still considering exactly what to do with this. Even if I restore it, I can't run standard gauge!)
He called all this stuff "junk". But some of us know better!
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Comments: 7
Well its a wonderful find
I recently picked up a 226E for about 100 $
The people also thought it was junk
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Hey, one man's trash is another man's treasure right? Some people just don't know good stuff when they see it. (Although if they were charging $100 for it, it couldn't have been "junk" now could it?)
Ooh, a 226E! That's a nice engine there, I don't have one of those. I do have a 1666E that some nice folks in Connecticutt gave to me though.
So, it seems you're into the prewar too, huh? I'm big-time into streamliners-- Flying Yankee, Commodore Vanderbilt, Dreyfuss Hudson and the like-- and I focus on both prewar and modern models of them.
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Yes
But its not just train sets for me
I'm a collector of all prewar objects worth collecting
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All prewar objects, huh? That's a pretty broad range. That does apply to the cardinal rule-- "collect what you like".
What are some highlights of your collection then?
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I mainly collect firearms
Russian American and some german
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Junk....
Oh really
Its like one... lionel
Two... pre war
How much did you pay?
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Well, let's see here. I gave him $15 for the coaches, $20 for the bridge, and $18 for everything else (including a couple of Marx cars now that I think of it). That's $53 in total.
It was a terrible pittance, and I told the guy I was offering him a pittance, but he didn't really care. He just wanted the rusty stuff out of his garage.
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