Bet it's impressive, BUT...

[tstage]

...just a le-e-e-e-e-ttle bit out of my price range.

http://cgi.ebay.com/DTD-HO-BRASS-Shoreham-Milwaukee-Road-Hiawatha-15-Car_W0QQitemZ6058161842QQcategoryZ78178QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Anyone game?

Tom

[pcarrell]

Sure, I'll take two! [:P]

I think this is God's way of saying that you have to much money!

[Anonymous]

Nice![:D]

[tstage]

BTW, did that lone $45,000 Lionel car that someone posted the link to last week ever sell on eBay?

Tom

[Anonymous]

Almost $7000 and it doesn't have lighting? Bit surprising that, would have expected interior lighting in each car at that price (Walthers can do it for $10 per car, and those are excellent lighting units). Very nice all the same, and unlikely to be offered in RTR plastic any time soon!

[n2mopac]

Cheap, ain't it? And they say N scale stuff is high. [:D]

Ron

[Fergmiester]

JUst love the claim
This is a private listing. Your identity will not be disclosed to anyone
except the seller. If you are already bidding on this item, view your bidder status.

We're not trying to protect the guilty from suspecting spouses... are we?

Too rich and not my theme

$6000 would by a new roster for the MESS!

Fergie

[Anonymous]

I`M NOT SURE MY ENTIRE LAYOUT WILL COST THAT MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!![:0]

[Train 284]

Those are nice but 7K is waaaaaaay out of my price range!

[csmith9474]

Per car, it isn't a bad deal, IF you have that kind of scratch to throw away. I saw that this morning and thought that it is a great looking consist. The Erie builts that they are selling to go with this set are really nice too. Thank goodness they come with roller bearing wheelsets. That is an awful heavy train to haul around. I guess that is why The Coach Yard sells those power trucks (which are DCC compatible).

Those Ajin cars sure are nice, though.

[Anonymous]

Very nice set indeed! But more money than I've ever had in my life! The sad part is, someone will buy it..........

[mustanggt]

WOW! That's really expensive[:0]. I could buy a good car for that much! But you have to admit these things are beautiful...........

[csmith9474]

I have been really tempted by this one.........
http://cgi.ebay.com/BRASS-CIL-SP-CRI-P-GOLDEN-STATE-16-CAR-SET-E7A-B-B_W0QQitemZ6057689396QQcategoryZ78178QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
...but I can do so much more with that kind of cash.

[simon1966]

It just goes to prove that like everything in life there are extremes. This is a stunning set, but not one that I would want to own. Hopefully someone with the desire and funds to give this a good home will cherish it for years to come. I have never been interested in simply displaying models, I am more of a runner. I would worry terribly if I had something of this value on my layout.

[DrummingTrainfan]

Well, when you add in the $250 I got for my birthday with what I had anyway...that makes $251, dangit, still a couple thousand short[:o)][:o)]

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by pcarrell
I think this is God's way of saying that you have to much money!

Nawww, Mellow Mikes PLASTIC freight car selling for $750 is! LOL

[1shado1]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tstage

...just a le-e-e-e-e-ttle bit out of my price range.

Tightwad! (LOL[:D])

Jeff

[tatans]

Aren't any of you guys reading other posts on this forum? ? you think $7,000 is a lot of money? ? try (without laughing) looking at the post on this forum on "how many locomotives do you have?" so far it's up to about 6 or 7 pages and some of these guys have 60 to 300( and many a lot more) brass locomotives or as many of them quote: "Too many to count" Their lists (if they are to be believed) must run into the many thousands of dollars. I don't know why anyone on this post is so surprised at this ebay sale. AND the dome car and end unit of the coaches, were the windows really that deep a green???

[Anonymous]

smitty - I thought what you did. That's $466.60 per car. Suppose for brass that's not so bad. Way over my head though. Any wealthy Hiawatha fans?

[coborn35]

Yes

[coborn35]

Yes was meant to go to Tatans post.

[Anonymous]

LOL! But coborn, I thought you were a wealthy Hiawatha fan!

[Berk-fan284]

There is a couple of even more expensive brass passenger car sets on ebay for even more.. I have some older brass locomotives but nothing anywhere near that pricey. That kind of price tag doesn't put that passenger consist anywhere but in a display cabinet (even if I could afford it or even want to buy it).

[tstage]

At 15 cars (plus locomotive), that's gotta be an amazingly long train - even in HO. So how long do you figure all those cars coupled together with the locomotive would be? 24'?

Tom

[R. T. POTEET]

A couple of years ago I visited a tinplate layout during a regional convention. This guy had two Lionel State Sets setting on his display shelves. I had never seen one of those before - pictures but never the real McCoy. He had purchased both of them from the same seller some years before for over $25K. To me that's a lot of money; to him he got what he wanted. Apparently he was an attorney and could afford it. I know that he was living up in an area of town where, when I had been selling (ha ha ha) real estate some years before, houses were going for a quarter of a mil.

Guess if I had it I could be eccentric.

[Milwhiawatha]

Too be honest I heard a rumor that Walthers might be building one of these sets in Plastic time will tell tho.

[rolleiman]

Apparently they are worth it to somebody.. A train like that belongs on the rails though, I hope he's not buying them to sit in boxes on a shelf in a dark closet....

[jpwc50]

The seller(Dan's Train Depot) buys most of his e-bay trains from estate auctions. I've been to his Hobby Shop in Ocala,FL and it's a great place. He has a regular store front shop & a back room that is full of boxes & boxes of trains he buys at these estate auctions. If you can't find an item, he's probably got it. If you're ever in or near Ocala, stop in but be prepared to spend most of a day there. You'll get 1st rate service in the store or on the internet from this guy.

[conrail92]

who would pay that much...you haft to be rich... there nice but i could think of a better way to spend my money for my layout

[dinwitty]

466 per car is way high, consider this train is 1952 in perfect shape. if anything each car would be 100 each, but really now..

and it even has ONE bidder... wheeeeee!!!! wish I was the seller