Hi Adam.. I do not know about Allentown.. But, My Next show is in March.. See the posting I just made... Carl Numquam Immoderatio Satis Est (Too Much Is Never Enough )
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Saturday the 26th of February and Sunday the 27th. Odd thing I did notice is that my ticket and their site no longer differentiate scales between the days. I am HO only so I am going to go on Saturday as AF Kid mentions above. That has always been the tradition. HO on Saturdays and all the others on Sunday. Truth be told you can usually find most of the same on either day.
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I can not complain as I did not spend more then 12 dollars on any item. The Athearn blue box was a awesome deal most of the cars were $4.50 each. The Silver Streak is for sale also make me a offer.
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I went back on Sunday to see if I could get the NJ Transit engine and cars. The engine is an Athearn and the cars are Rivarossi. I never knew Athearn made a NJ Transit engine.
This is the rest of haul #2 I got today while wandering around for a while.
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The chrome B&Os where purchased near the mens room in the larger hall from a father and son team that I never saw before. The set also came with 4 more chrome cars but the skirts are broke.
The AB set (which is perfect) and 4 beat up cars cost $65.00. The Chessie is a IHC and it has smoke and is boxed and cost $35.00. It came from the same vendor. $100.00 total for everything.
Originally posted by taycotrains on February 28 2011
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Today it was quality not quantity. The show was not very good for HO anyway. There was a lot of rolling stock but not many engines or dealers with quality stock.
The NJ Transit F40PH's are the earlier Bachmann Spectrum Hong Kong version With the flashing strobe lights on top of the Cab. All of these have issues witht the decals on one side.
The AHM engines were for parts.
Originally posted by AF Kid on May 21 2011
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Todays haul from the Merchant Sq Mall show. It was sparsely attended.
Walthers NIB Sperry Rail Inspection Car-$30 The Super Rare Bachmann SF E60CF- $10 Bachmann Chessie E60CF- $12
Athearn NIB Powered NH RDC-1 -$15 Rare Tyco 4301 GN Shell Unfortunately it has heat damege on the side. I bought it for the handrails-$1 Tyco 630- 1776- $5. Tyco 630 SF 1102- $5 This runs great! Tyco GP-20 Durango- $3 I bought it for the handrails.
AHM SF SW12? It needs some tinkering as it doesn't run- $5 AHM RS-2 UP. $5 I needed it for parts to rebuild an AHM RS-2 Penn Central. Tyco 630- ICG $3 I bought this for parts to rebuild the 1776 630 Tyco 630 Golden Eagle- $5
This is a MRC Transformer. From the 60's??? Anyone care to guess? It was $30.
These two Transformers a dealer gave me as he didn't want to carry them home.
Originally posted by AF Kid on September 10 2011
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I went to that show today. It was packed and there were some interesting pieces for sale. There is one bad note that I found out. The next show in February 2023 will cost $15 to get in for 1 day. Dealer tables will go up from $75 to $90. This was the last time I will go to that show unless I can get a free ticket. Higher dealer prices means the trains will cost more and there will be less dealers.
I did manage to find a couple of beat up Athearn Boom cars for parts that I have looking for. Two new Bachmann Amtrak Phase III Metroliner coaches for $5 each and a new Walthers CSX MoW #2 Orange Color cars set. Prices were somewhat higher and some dealers were willing to take reasonable offers.
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I was there also. It is a big place and a hard place to meetup. I met my son there. He was at his clubs. Anthracite Railroads table in the big room. Your pridection about the show may come true. It is bad enough we have to drive so far to get there.
I did find a few dealer selling vintage HO at realistic prices. I found a Bowser bronze mountain and a Sakura B&O dockside 0-4-0T. Also a nice Hobbyline C&O H12-44 and a HObbyline scratched up twin set of FA-1's in Western Pacific.
Still I liked roaming around in the two Halls. I never found a Sakura dockside before. Always had high prices of over $100. When I saw it at $30. I got it. It is a strange diecast piece.
Not in its great detailing but you know the way every manufacturer almost always puts their letter in the name plate. That was the first thing I looked at and where you would see a V, R, RR, P or other letters there is a F. Seeing that and the made in Japan bottom plate I knew this was a special piece. With the importer being PFM Pacific Fast Mail maybe the F was for fast.
I do not know. Sorry I missed you! Frank
Sakura dockside
HObbyline h12-44 C&O
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A pair of TYCO F7a in C&O so I could fix my broken one. Also in TYCO a Pair of PRR 1860 coaches and a bobber caboose. It is lettered for Republic Steel and one not often seen. A Tyco PRR light car and Central Pacific 1860 low side gondola. An old boxed Mantua 0-6-0t. A old Rivarossi 0-4-0 saddle tank loco. And a real big book completes the stuff I got. Frank
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