TCA Gold Train

[Benjamin Maggi]

I remember as a child (mid 1980's) reading an article in Model Railroader that said that a gold-plated train would be auctioned years later (I think 15 years) on the date of the anniversary of the Train Collector's Association's 50th anniversary. Or something like that. Am I dreaming this all up. If I remember correctly, it was an electric engine and several large passenger cars.

As a child then, I thought the train looked incredible. But now that I am thinking about that old train, I am wondering about it.

Does anyone have any information on it. How much did it sell for? Did it actually sell?

 

[Seayakbill]

It was auctioned off two years ago at the Pittsburgh TCA National Convention. I can't remember the price, I am thinking it was around $35,000 or higher. There were a few other gold plated items that also sold in the thousands, a very profitable night for the TCA.

At that convention Mike Wolf donated the Diamond Anniversay train that will be auctioned off at the 75th anniversary. A steamer with the tender filled with 75 diamonds.

[lionelsoni]

Some years ago I came across on the Internet someone in Italy selling a "treno d'oro".  It was solid gold, HO, and claimed to be a Big Boy.  But it had been absurdly stretched to include three engines instead of two and had, I think, six-wheel leading and trailing trucks.

[Benjamin Maggi]

Thanks for the information you too. Wonder how much the diamond train will go for...