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clockworkant
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:52 am
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Hi, my father recently passed away and after sorting through allot of stuff I stumbled over ( N guage) about 200 coaches, 200 stocks and about 30 locos a ton of track, about 3 or 400 pieces. 5 boxes full all in all. Most of them are in mint condition or close to, never been used or run. I think he collected them and never settled down so never managed to build a thing out of them. Where would I get information on voltage to run the trains at or prices if I want to sell them perhaps? Most of them are Lima, Arnold, lone star, sigma and a few others from the 1960's to 1980's all in original packing. Any idea what to do with it all?
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:04 am
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You'll have to do some research!
Start with ebay, model trains, N scale. Take your time, and watch those items that approximate the trains that you have. You will need to know something about these models before you list them for sale, if you are to get fair prices.
Some of the models will get good prices, but most will get very ordinary prices. Ebay, like the rest of the economy (worldwide) is a little depressed at the moment, so it will not hurt to wait a while.
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clockworkant
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:09 am
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also, i was looking around for track to buy, and alot of the model shops seem to be pretty steep. Like for a curved piece charging $10 easy and up to $50 per piece. I only have about 30 or 40 straight pieces and about 300+ curved pieces, where would I be able to find some cheep straight track, imported/shipped in or from a store?
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:20 am
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Buy some flexitrack, then cut it to length. Comes in (?)900mm lengths.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:30 pm
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$10 a piece? You sure that's not the price for a pack? I sell N scale straights and curves for 85 cents a piece if that's any guide.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:30 pm
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yer, they are $4 - $10 per piece
so they are ripping me off. ok I wont get it from them
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:22 pm
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| clockworkant wrote: | | also, i was looking around for track to buy, and alot of the model shops seem to be pretty steep. Like for a curved piece charging $10 easy and up to $50 per piece. I only have about 30 or 40 straight pieces and about 300+ curved pieces, where would I be able to find some cheep straight track, imported/shipped in or from a store? |
At those prices I might have to open a shop. Have a look at flexitrack it is only $4 - $6 for a 900 mm length. I prefer Peco, there are other brands that are a little cheaper but in my opinion not as good.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:51 pm
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| clockworkant wrote: | yer, they are $4 - $10 per piece
so they are ripping me off. ok I wont get it from them |
Well, at first it appears that way. But it depends just what pieces these are and what brand. Some of the European brands will be quite a bit dearer than Peco, Atlas and the like. Did you notice what brand track they are selling?
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:57 am
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I'm surprised nobody has said this yet but Lone Star was the very first N scale available and while a little rough by current standards, should be considered real collectors items, particularly if they are in good condition and in the original boxes.
However, these had "rubber band" drive and replacement drive bands might be hard to come by.
They would probably bring high prices at auction in the UK.
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:13 am
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| M636C wrote: | I'm surprised nobody has said this yet but Lone Star was the very first N scale available and while a little rough by current standards, should be considered real collectors items, particularly if they are in good condition and in the original boxes.
However, these had "rubber band" drive and replacement drive bands might be hard to come by.
They would probably bring high prices at auction in the UK.
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I did mean to bring that up. The Lone Star electric models are rarely seen today. The push-along ones are relatively easy to come by though (I have a number of them).
Lima N gauge locos, for the most part, don't run terribly well - although there are exceptions. However, given what you said about the age of them, you probably have the not so good ones. Like Lone Star, the early Lima was fantastic in its day, but not by today's standards. There's probably a small collector's market for early N scale, but I think that is all it would be. Small. So collector's prices may not be paid for them. but give it time. 20 years ago nobody wanted Tri-ang trains. Now people pay big dollars for many of them. Some of this early N scale is probably heading the same way.
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