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QUOTE: Originally posted by dontrainman There are small engines(Plymouth, Dockside, Porter) for around $100. You can find bargins if you look. Lionel was selling engines for over $300 in the '50's when the average income was about $5000 a year. Just keep looking.[:)]
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QUOTE: Originally posted by LS1Heli If people are complaining about the O gauge prices than I am sorry you are not in the correct hobby. You need to be taking up something else...like book reading or sewing. Lionel Trains have ALWAYS been expensive. For exmaple: The Lionel 1952 2343 Santa Fe passenger set with O guage track sold for what $79.95. Adjusting the Consumer Price Index (used a calc from 2004) that EXACT same set would cost someone today $569.88. Then add a ZW transformer to that $29.95 and adjusting it would have costed $213.48 today. So in reality okiechoochoo someone in 1950 would of had to produce an enormous amount of funds back in the day to have purchased this set. Of course these numbers are estimates but close.
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