What was the best deal you ever got on train stuff?
Me?
I got 20 brand new heavyweight passenger cars for $2 each. And since I model the steam era, they fit right in!
Now how about you?
I dunno.. both of my LHS's sometimes have items that are just too good to pass up. I think once there was a Christmas sale at one store and I walked out with like 2 for 1 worth a few dollars example one Proto Tankcar assembled and one free. I worked the system within the sale rules and went home feeling like a robber.
At the other store I picked up a assembled feedmill that was used on a local layout and adopted it for my railroad. I dont remember what I paid for it but definately less than a retail box kit plus paints, glues etc. I will be adding bins and stuff to it so eventually it wont be such a deal.
I managed to buy a few engines direct for less than what either store would charge for them via the internet but when I think on it, there isnt really that much of a savings at the end of the day.
Well I could make a REALLY good deal. My LHS has a WC GP38-2 for 55 bucks, and the orginal price was $77. Other wise the best deal I have made was getting a $110 locomotive for 90 bucks.
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Bachman Spectrum F40 for $35 retail $105
BNSF Premium heritage SD-75M(fully assembled) for $60 retail $140
and many more but those are the big ones
Both were brand spankin' new...
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Broadway Limited On30 2-8-0 with sound - FREE! Won it in a magazine photo contest!
One I paid for was earlier this year - A Precision Craft On30 Galloping Goose with sound, list price $300.00 but retailing on sale for $99.00. Got it from a fellow getting out of the hobby for $60.00 Canadian, postage included! It cost the guy about $12.00 to mail it!
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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I got 12 Walther's' Heavyweights in UP's TTG for $17 each
Atlas Wide Vision Caboose, NIB. $1 out of an estate auction.
Never know what you will find.
Mark Gosdin
I purchased a brass HO Overland Models Milwaukee Road S2a 4-8-4 for a little over $400. Great engine!
Eric
pcarrell wrote: "What was the best deal you ever got on train stuff?"I picked up a Quick Strip automatic self adjusting Wire Stripper for wires 12 to 24 gauge at Wall Mart along with some other stuff. The Stripper wouldn't scan so I told the clerk that I would be back next week. The same thing happened the next time and the clerk called a supervisor. When she couldn't get it to scan she let me have it for $1. It was around a $20 item. Bob
"What was the best deal you ever got on train stuff?"
I picked up a Quick Strip automatic self adjusting Wire Stripper for wires 12 to 24 gauge at Wall Mart along with some other stuff. The Stripper wouldn't scan so I told the clerk that I would be back next week. The same thing happened the next time and the clerk called a supervisor. When she couldn't get it to scan she let me have it for $1. It was around a $20 item.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
An N scale Con-Cor Veranda Turbine for free.
And second to that would probably be a Kato EF-58 for $25.
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
Well some one is going to say it doesn't pertain to this forum but I'm going to tell it anyway. I paid $12.00 for a wedding ring and shes still wearing it today after 37 years.LoL.As for train things I have had several times traded a freind for some things he didn't want and I didn't tell him it was just what I was looking for.He was so happy to get the other things I still haven't told him.
slow train Ed
A brass SD40-2 for $50 CDN, painted BC Rail. It would derail on any curves and the LHS owner was fed up with it.
Simple fix, replace the dried out tubing with proper shafts and u joints. It is now the pride of my CP Rail fleet.
slow train Ed wrote: Well some one is going to say it doesn't pertain to this forum but I'm going to tell it anyway. I paid $12.00 for a wedding ring and shes still wearing it today after 37 years.LoL.slow train Ed
Well some one is going to say it doesn't pertain to this forum but I'm going to tell it anyway. I paid $12.00 for a wedding ring and shes still wearing it today after 37 years.LoL.
Hmmmmm....best deal I've ever gotten? Well I've been very fortunante many times to get excellent deals, some on EBAY, [from people who had no idea what they were selling], some from a little LHS I go to {recently it was a NIB Athearn Bluebox SD60 in Sante Fe livery for $5}.
But I'd have to say the best deal I've EVER gotten.....was a trip to an auction.
My finace saw a listing in the local paper for an auction and it listed ''HO scale trains'', so we went to it, it was in a VFD hall and it was an estate auction, lots of ''antiques'' and home interiors and .......a complete layout minus the benchwork.
The locos were the first train stuff they brought up and they went for $12 ea. bidders choice.....one guy took 2 locos and the others went back up for bids a while later.
I bid $2 and it was looking good for me, but 2 others bid it up to $7ea......one guy took a Conrail painted steamer and the other guy got 2 docksiders....I took a Bachmann Spectrum Geep in Pennsy black and a slightly damaged Rivarossi steamer. {both run beautifully].
But the best deal came when the layout goodies came up....14 boxes full of buildings,kits, track ad landscaping stuff. I bid $2 but it quickly went up to $10 a box....the high bidder got pick of the boxes and took ONE!
When they came back up a few mins. later my $2 was the ONLY bid! I took home 13 boxes piled high with goodies for $26 plus tax.....in one box there was at least $300 worth of Woodland Scenics stuff, there was old Bachmann stuff...like a bascule bridge, 9 unbuilt building kits and probably 15 or so Kibri, Faller and Heljan buildings already built [including a nifty little motorized water wheel with a pump].There were bunches of Life-Like figures and diecast cars and trucks. And a lot of TYCO operating accessories.
It took me hours to sort through all the stuff and get it stored. I have no idea exactly what all that stuff would cost new.....but it's gotta be close to $1000.
It's sad that all that stuff ended up at auction because no one in the family wanted it. But at least it wasn't just tossed out. I'll be using that stuff for years, and happy every time I do because I got such a deal.
My best buy was a Varney brass Berkshire with a japanese S.P. brass tender for 25.00
Chuck
How about an ATSF brass 4-6-4 Hudson in very good condition and running for $35?
Dick
Texas Chief
CVP T9000E wireless throttle, NIB, mint, $99 bucks free shipping, eBay. . .
davekelly wrote:The best deal I ever got? Joining the forum. Cost me nothing and I've learned things that would have cost big time bucks to learn the hard way.
I'll second that one...