Anybody a fan of old model trains/other memorabilia?

"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
02/13/2019 at 21:59 • Filed to: None

A bit of it is car related, and some other various stuff. My grandfather’s widow is selling off !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! if anyone is into such things.

DISCUSSION (16)

NKato > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
02/13/2019 at 22:11

I’m kinda into it. The UP passenger rolling stock has my attention. Are they HO scale? If so, I’ll buy the full set for a hundred plus shipping.

I’m at work however, so I can’t do any purchases remotely. We can try getting in touch online though. If you have discord: NKato#2316

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > NKato
02/13/2019 at 22:18

I’m not selling any of it, it’s my grandpa’s wife and she live 8 hours from me. You’ll have to use the “contact seller” thing to ask her any questions.

OPPOsaurus WRX > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
02/13/2019 at 22:18

edit: now that i look some do have it. maybe it was just the one i was looking at.

you should put the model scale in the title. I looked at a couple and I dont think i could find it at all. Those 12 wheeled engines are awesome. I hope to build a little mountain side village in my basement.... if i ever finish the house projects. i have HO scale.

Kinja'd!!!

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > OPPOsaurus WRX
02/13/2019 at 22:19

I have no idea what scale they are. I know only what is in the listings .

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > OPPOsaurus WRX
02/13/2019 at 22:23

I have an HO scale set downstairs from when I was a kid! :)

NKato > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
02/13/2019 at 22:26

Okay. Problem is that some items expire tomorrow morning while I'm sleeping. :p

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > NKato
02/13/2019 at 22:31

My guess is she will keep re-listing them

Berang > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
02/13/2019 at 22:35

I love terrible, early, N scale. I have a bunch of it.

OPPOsaurus WRX > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
02/13/2019 at 22:42

that was mine from when i was a kid. at first my parents thought they had given it away but the finally found in it the back of the attic. they did give away all my hotwheels track.

facw > OPPOsaurus WRX
02/13/2019 at 22:45

I think my HO stuff is still at my parents’ somewhere (and will probably get tossed or given away as they downsize , I might keep the Brio and Legos, but I don’t think the HO is good enough to make the cut). Somewhere we probably also have my dad and uncle’s Lionel stuff, and even a set that belonged to my grandfather, some of those are metal construction and might actually be valuable.

OPPOsaurus WRX > facw
02/13/2019 at 22:51

i’d save 1 box of the best HO stuff.

facw > OPPOsaurus WRX
02/13/2019 at 22:56

I’m not sure there’s anything that qualifies as “best”. I don’t even have strong memories of what I had. I think one Union Pacific diesel engine, but I’m drawing a blank on the rest of it. Probably will go to their local dump’s “swap shop” and hopefully it will go to someone will find a use for it.

E92M3 > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
02/13/2019 at 23:08

My Stepdad WAS into them many years ago. He asked for me to help sell his collection, but wrote down prices what he paid for each of them and expected to get at least what he paid for them. After ebay fees and shipping, and market value he would of been lucky to get half of what he paid for it all. He finally reached out to a local model railroad club, and some guy came and bought everything. He never said what he got for it all, but my guess is he didn’t get anything close to what he paid.

The weird est part was he collected “ rare” trains/cars, never took them out of the boxes. He also collected playschool sets to make a small town out of that his track would go around. The playschool sets were wort h more than any of his trains on ebay.

smobgirl > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
02/13/2019 at 23:41

Had to check the timetables for family history purposes but nothing covering VA.

daender > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
02/13/2019 at 23:53

That peanut tongue-in-cheek car is super tempting, but the price I can’t afford right now.

ttyymmnn > E92M3
02/14/2019 at 09:02

I was at a hobby shop a few years ago, and was talking to the owner. I told him I had a big box of HO stuff back at the house, older stuff, and wondered how much it might be worth. “Not very much,” he said. I retrieved that box when I was back in VA over Christmas, and I plan to go through it and ultimately will advertise it on our neighborhood news group as “come and take it.”