Do you have a use for this engine?

[pbjwilson]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4147&item=5973530593&rd=1

I don't know what you do with this one?

[prewardude]

9 bids - unbelievable! I guess some people will bid on anything. [%-)]

[Anonymous]

I am amazed sometime at what people will sell on ebay...

The worlds largest french fry is another one!

For fun, I think I try to sell a used toilet seat cover and offer free UPS ground just to see how many bidders I get!

[Anonymous]

Some of the parts could be used in a scrap yard scene. The shipping costs alone would prevent my bidding. Some artist might buy it, repaint it, then sell it as art for many many more bucks! [X-)]
Not to laugh about the used toilet seat. I took one to a friends yard sale many years ago as a joke. It was one of the first items to sell! [:O] Ya never know!

[Anonymous]

If I had one like that, I would make a melt-down scene at a nuclear powerplant, and put the diesel on a siding near it.

[tmcc man]

I fi had it i would use it as a model for a scrap yard, and I would put a little welding figure on the running board.

[Big_Boy_4005]

I don't think it's even a good paper weight. My guess is that it smells bad too.

I think the seller should have had the common decency to hold a memorial service for it and bury it in the back yard, rather than listing it on Ebay. No respect for the dead.[V][:0][:(][;)]

[pbjwilson]

I like the $9.00 for shipping - insurance extra!

Paper weight is good, maybe a doorstop.

Although I did have the same thought as Jerry, atomic meltdown - or perhaps alien meltdown for your Area 51 set.

[Anonymous]

Alien attack scene[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

[ben10ben]

The frame looks salvageable if you wanted to put some work into it, but that's about all I see. I doubt that the money spent would be worth the effort on that, though.

[FJ and G]

I can't get the image to show in my computer but I am trying to imagine what it must look like. If you have engine shop on your layout, maybe cut it up and it'll look at home.

[underworld]

Looks strangely cool. Maybe a train from "Beyond Thunderdome"?????

underworld

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

Interesting, very interesting! I agree with underworld that it looks strangely cool. It would make for a very unique scene on a layout. I am reminded of the CTT article on Neil Young's layout in the March 1993 issue. One of the pictures shows a scene with a very badly melted GM generator car with postwar Lionel AEC items beside some kind of a nuclear plant made out of an old vacuum cleaner. This engine would be perfect for something like this.

I think perhaps the reason it went so high is that it is truly one of a kind. There are at least a few imaginative people who have a use for it. This would be a rare opportunity to buy an item like this. No one would go and burn a perfectly good engine just to get a warped melted one, so this is their chance to get one.

By the way, the same seller also has an 8551 PRR EP-5 and a Santa Fe diesel that are in the same condition, except the plastic bodies are warped pretty much beyond recognition on them. They each have a day to go. The EP-5 is at $11.00 with 2 bids and the ATSF is at $9.99 with one bid. I wonder how high they'll go for in the end.

[pbjwilson]

I just took a look at the other engines for sale. The EP-5 looks like something my dog left in the backyard!

[Frank in Steam]

I have no use for it, but it sure looks like a home brew first attempt at a BL2.

[Big_Boy_4005]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pbjwilson

I just took a look at the other engines for sale. The EP-5 looks like something my dog left in the backyard!

I saw the turd in question, and only one thing comes to mind.

Are these people nuts???

Might be some useable motor parts......sheeeeesh

[Anonymous]

Reminds me of a fire on 23rd street in Manhattan that involved one of Madison Hardware's stock rooms. There were burnt and deformed engines all over the sidewalk. But that was quit awhile ago. I think I remember seeing the U33 in Spirit of America all twisted up and destoyed and some GP9 carcasses. I guess some people would of bought those because they came out of the window on 23rd street.

[Dr. John]

Looks like a refuge from a Salvadore Dali painting (the guy that liked melted clocks).

[espeefoamer]

So that's what a GE looks like after the flame shooting out of the stack gets out of control[:0][8D][xx(]!

[Anonymous]

Well, in the end, the EP-5 went for $13.77 with 3 bids and the Santa Fe went for $20.50 with 9 bids. Interestingly, each of these engines went to a different bidder. This is proof that no matter how much you may think something is garbage, there is someone out there who wants it!

[Pennvalley]

I guess I should sell junk & garbage on Ebay, probably have better luck than selling a few of my new in box engines.

[eZAK]

I'm thinking of taking the heat gun to some loco's[swg]