General Discussion (Model Railroader)

I was just surfing around eBay and noticed this auction listing again:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Huge-Ho-Lot-Athearn-Walthers-Roundhouse-Con-Cor-Atlas_W0QQitemZ280154592847QQihZ018QQcategoryZ19130QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Which was originally featured on this thread:

http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/1/1224102/ShowPost.aspx#1224102

The auction ends today and is up to $8,125! 

I just thought it was interesting... The only way I'd consider bidding on all this stuff is if I thought I could sell it all individually at a train show or something. Let's see, if there are 1,000 pieces of rolling stock and you sold for $5 each, and you sold each of the 89 locos for say $15 each... well, that's over $6K right there. Plus the other stuff, minus the vendor fees, I guess $8,125 is in the right ball park...

How sad.

Better to have a dozen cars and a few engines with a completed railroad instead of all that.

I've been watching that auction as well. I can't imagine bidding that much money on something I couldn't inspect with my own eyes and hands in person.

There's another crazy auction out there, too:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330168630767

Two guys are in a bidding war over a Walthers center-beam car. At last view, the price was up to $71, almost a dollar a scale foot! Seems a bit steep for a car I've seen at train shows for $8

If some fool with more money than sense wants to waste his money thinking he got a deal, more power to the seller LOL.

I'm willing to bet most kind of people with this kind of money to spend barely raise an eyebrow dropping 10 or 20 grand on stuff like this.

Varnet wrote:

Seems a bit steep for a car I've seen at train shows for $8

I especially like the horn hooks.

UP2CSX wrote:

I suspect he's looking for somewhere around $10,000.

Boy!  The eBay seller sure is a salesman.  I love the line "95% of the cars were hand built professionally from kits". [Italics mine]  Now that might be quite impressive had they been craftsman kits.  However, a vast number of them appear to be Athearn BBs and Roundhouse.  I'd be really curious as to how many of them were actually custom painted.

Tom

Good old idiotbay, always good for a laugh. Imagine what someone could buy with 8-10k at one of the bigger train shows? You would not buy anything from the wrong era or roads so the purchases would be more focused. Also the quality would go up.  

Hard to believe a person would buy so much and not use it. Just the amount of storage space alone is huge.

I wonder what the original "hoarder" was thinking? So sad, trains are meant to be operated. Not stored like a coin or baseball card collection.

Jim