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I collect vintage toy trains, so ebay is a very good place to find things like that. Often you can find good deals if you search long enough. Many people selling on ebay don't have a clue about what it is that they have and can many times have poor descriptions. It's worth it to try and find these. For example, if you want to buy an Athearn GP9 and did a search for "Athearn GP9" you wouldn't find the clueless person who has one listed as a "model train engine". It takes time to find these, but you can get some deals. Over 90% of the listings in the category "Other Scales" belong somewhere else and are being sold by people with no knowledge of trains. Sometimes people can do really stupid things, like sell a steam locomotive and tender seperately. I once bid on one like that and ended up with just the engine and I still haven't found the right tender yet. I'd sooner see some unrelated trains put into one lot than a set split up. Also, sometimes people need a lesson in how to properly package things. I've received lots of model trains that have been just thrown into a box. Nothing's been damaged yet, though. However, the deals I've got certainly outweight the dissappointments.
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