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 Posted - January 30 2007 : 1:32:11 PM
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Does anyone have a copy of Standard Guide to Athearn Model Trains
by Tim Blaisdell, Ed Urmston?
Whats your impression? Worth the Price?
Thanks,
Gareth
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Posted - January 30 2007 : 4:19:38 PM
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Very much so.
As a reference to what was made from the Globe days to 1998, it can't be beat.
As a price guide, it's not as useful, as it's pricing is a "times the original price" format.
I don't worry about pricing, as the market will determine that, plue, I have a limit what I'll spend on older Atheran.
Very little of what Irv made could be considered rare, and if it was made as a collectable, it isn't.
(Think the Harley set)
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Posted - January 30 2007 : 6:02:20 PM
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Hi Gareth.
If you are looking for information on Athearn / Globe, It is the best around. But, It dosen't cover the early Athearn.
If you want the older Athearn That includes "O" gauge and early HO Metal Boxcars, Tank cars, and items dating back to 1940s up to the 1970s. The "Greenberg's Guide to Athearn Trains" by Dallas J. Mallerich. Is excellent.
With both books you have just about everything you could want. The Greenberg book also has a lot of pictures that show what the cars and engines looked like. Who knows maybe someday someone might write a book on Tyco / Mantua [:D]
Carl
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Posted - January 31 2007 : 1:20:20 PM
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Hi VH:
I hope so. I think we have moved far enough from Tyco-Ubiquity to gain the neccesary perspective. I was just making the point on the Vintahe-HO Yahoo group that their sense of what is "really" vintage Ho smacks of Tradition for traditions sake. What is vintage changes. Values on Tyco equipment are beginning to reflect that. It's perfectly natural for Tyco to become a reflection of a period of history as other things in Popular culture have done.
-Gareth
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