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 Posted - May 02 2012 : 9:34:45 PM
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I got this really cheap from a dealer with one sale and they shipped it, and another engine that was trashed worse in a different package, in bubble wrap and brown paper. When I opened this package it looked like this. I figured for the price the handrails were worth it and theyr're complete. The tank lugs were snapped, no couplers and the coupler tongue bent, the rear plow broken and the bolts that hold the aluminum plate on the motor bogey broken.. I put the works in a Silver Streak shell and finally go it to run.
The other engine was a LL GP35 and the rear pilot and steps were gone but not gone in the auction pic. I got that for free but it's junk.
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Posted - May 02 2012 : 9:51:11 PM
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It takes alot of common sense to ship a loco in a bag. Imagine if it were fine china
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Posted - May 02 2012 : 10:39:35 PM
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The really neat thing is that 1950s boomerang Formica pattern underneath it all in your image- now, there's a classic!
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Posted - May 02 2012 : 10:58:53 PM
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| One of the Tyco Australia loco I have came in a padded mailing envelope. The was slight damage to the front of the loco that a little glue fixed. I was amazed it wasn't totally trashed.
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 01:46:39 AM
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ERRRRRR This reminds of time about 6 years ago.....
I had left my home town in Pennsylvania, to relocate to New Hampshire, and in the mean time, I totoly forgot I had left 16 (YES 16) Rivarossi Articulateds at the club I was the president of.....
I had "steped down" and my right hand man took the spot, well............ long story, short, I had gotten a call from him telling me what I had left behind......Was second nature for me to leave my engines at the club so.....
I told him, pack 'em up, and ship 'em to me, add $1,500 insurance, and I'll pay you for the cost and some for your efforts, EVEN the materials for shipping them to me.....
Stuck 'em in a box, NOTHING protecting any of them, NOT even a section of bubble wrap in a box, about 3 times bigger then it needed to be, and added $1,000 of insurance and sent 'em off 5th class.....
Got 'em what seemed like a month latter......*sigh* ERRRRR I opened the box, to a TON of parts! I can't even explain my mood that day!
I called him and was like WTH were you thinkin' packing those up like that!? (Sad thing is, he has sold a THOUSANDS of trains over ebay and I just could not imagine him, packing those in the manner he did......
I could have cried! Just thinkin about it, I could hang him once more for that one as they all were MINT old stock, with alittle run time on them.....
Like 3 Big Boys, 5 Cab Forwards, 3 EL-5's, 2 Challengers, and 3 Y6b's...........
Again, they're all back together but one Challenger, and the Big Boys I sold for parts along time ago......
~John
Many have tried to, and failed, ya just can't repair stupid... 
Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 04:15:57 AM
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YIPES! I fif buy a Tyco log loader from eBay once. It had the original box, no insert though. To my suprise, I find it just bubble wrapped and brown paper'd over! Nothing broke though. John, thats a sad day about your articulateds!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 08:33:33 AM
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THAT is why I send stuff in BOXES, wrap them in newspaper & stuff paperr all around the stuff Also ask post office to stamp FRAGILE on the box too I needs one of them stamps
I think I've sent a few of you stuff & not recieved ONE complaint 
That because after I wrap stuff I shake the box HARD!! If I hear nothing then it'll be ok 
Edited by - microbusss on May 03 2012 11:28:13 AM
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 11:30:34 AM
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It's also why the average IQ is 100!
-Gareth
"A is A"
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 2:30:24 PM
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Y'all shoulda seen how I packed up Ben's great big lot of fixer uppers!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - May 03 2012 : 4:42:33 PM
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About 4 years ago I won a mint Rivarossi U25C shell from a seller who'd bought a lot of RR surplus. He was a book seller with 100% feedback, and said he would go to great lengths to maintain that status, which I guess explains why the shell arrived in a padded envelope. It's back was broken, with a split down the top of the hood, along with some breaks in the front steps.
When I told the seller, he refunded everything including shipping and let me keep it. When I suggested for his own sake he should send model train parts in a sturdy, well-packed box he blew up, saying that he had sent them all over the world, and that I was the first complaint. You just can't fix stupid.
Fortunately the shell turned out to be repairable, and with some styrene cross braces inside the split down the hood is invisible, so I got a freebie at his expense.
The two worst shipping experiences I've had were thru HO Yard Sale: the first guy shipped a mint Rivarossi GN Mikado in a long triangular document tube, but forgot to seal the end. It arrived in pieces, but fortunately he refunded all of my money and let me keep it. The second guy put a heavy and particularly soft 4-6-0 in a box with a hunk of foam, and it too arrived as a jigsaw puzzle. It wasn't as if there was any chance of rough handling between BC and NJ.  I think some of these guys believe their packages are transported atop soft, fluffy clouds towed by unicorns.
Ben, I'm like you... everything is wrapped & packed until nothing rattles. And John, all I can say to you is OUCH!
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Posted - May 04 2012 : 2:53:24 PM
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D'oh! At least it's a common release and as you say, the handrails alone might be worth a low bid.
I recently won a scarce Mantua (70's) release Soo Line GP20 that arrived in similar shape. You may be able to remount the fuel tanks by keying the broken mouting lugs to fit their posts and gluing them. Don't remove the tank or screws and glue the posts separately, or they will just break off again once you attempt to torque the screws back into place. The couplers are unfortunate, but an all-too-common issue. I'm kind of impressed that the gimbal ring broke off though... can't say I've seen that too often.
I guess I've been lucky that I've yet to have something sent to me that was poorly packed. In fact, I have the opposite problem: too many sellers go overboard with hermietcially sealing stuff in as much tightly-wound wrap and tape as possible, and break off sitrrups and such as a result. It's hard to yell at them when the noble intent was there, so I usually just fix the issue and pass along a note for their future reference.
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