Another timely visit to the local hobby shop yields new finds . . .

[Anonymous]

found this little gem for 3 bucks at the local flea market. made my day!!

[dwiemer]

If in fact, you do wan to do a deal down the road, let me know....and we will keep it between us  I wouldn't tell the New England yank.  Of course we could do a transaction on the weekend and he'd never know it, unless he went to the library.  You would think a guy who spends so much time in the library would be smarter

Dennis

[Frank53]

Dennis:

Keep this between us, I still have those Santa Fe's, but please don't let the New England Knucklehead know.

[phillyreading]

Frank,

You did extremely well on those post war items far as price goes.  As others have mentioned on my side of Florida these items go for twice to five times what you paid for them, so I am extremely jealous of the great deals you are getting!

Just goes to show that you don't need ebay!

I passed on some Ross Switches at my local hobby shop as I didn't have any need for them and Gargraves tinplate track was being sold with them for $50.00 about a month ago.  I prefer Gargraves stainless steel track as it don't rust as easy.

Lee F.

[dwiemer]

Frank, you scored on these.  I really like the dump cars.  I have 5, but paid much more for each than you did.  I would have loved to hook up with you about those Santa Fe F units you sold.  Considering that the New England Yank who is too cheap to get a home computer was ready to jump, and that you let them go for half what you offered him, well....it must have been a great deal.  Keep up the good work

Dennis

[sean s.]

You are going to love that marx light tower.  it shines nice and bright and looks great when hooked up on the layout.  Great deal!

[dbaker48]

I had posted on your other thread last Saturday, but it didn't make the trip.  I can't believe all your deals!!!  I think you need to open a store.

Keep it going!! 

[Frank53]

John:

I did not know that was a Marx item - thanks!

[jefelectric]

Frank, You did well on the Marx light tower.  They go for 10 times that on ebay and at shows.

[Frank53]

Back to the local hobby shop on my way home today and wanted to sift through a few more items in teh wake of Saturday's visit.

This coal dump car - while cosmetically is full of ships and wings and dings, is on my hit list of post war cars I want multiples of.

An "auto loader" sans autos, but more digging on Saturday may yield the original autos, or I may come up with some new loads:

And a honey of a yard light - that is going to look great on this industrial section.

The candy store appears to be closed however, as I had to pay through the nose for these. The coal dump car was $3.00, the auto loader was an outrageous $5.00 and the yard light tower was $2.00 - for a total of $10.00.