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Here is my trains from today.
1- MARX HUSSLER NH DIESEL in black with orange lettering.
2- 2 model power Burlington bay window cabooses.
3- Marx valley express caboose.
4- Marx Virginian coal car.
5- Marx Portland cement car.
6- Trainminiature GN stock car.
7- Trainminiature GN OB box car.
8- Trainminiature NP OB box car.
9- Lindsay FA2 diesel.
10- Varney IC 40' DD box car. ( from wks. he was at the show.)
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Could I please have ONE BN caboose? 
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Posted - January 10 2016 : 4:27:46 PM
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Well today at Metuchen train show I got a Canadian Pacific passenger car set ( gilbert cars). Tyco Southern crescent limited 3 car passenger set. Lionel SF 2 coaches and 1 observation cars. And a motor less Mantua B&O 0-6-0t.
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Posted - January 16 2016 : 7:48:41 PM
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Merchants Square Mall. FINDS. 01-16-2016.
1- Marx Sears Allstate train set 9942. NH 0-4-0t, SF box car, Allstate tank car, LVRR coal hopper with load, Erie flat with tractor trailer, Western Maryland gondola, NH bay window caboose.
2-Thomas, Ambrose Wine Car 6 dome all metal in box built up.
3- Metal tank car parts. Bakers chocolate, Sunray oil co.,
4- 4, 75' Jouef passenger cars,
5- Gilbert blue industrial; switcher, #31021.
6- Joe's Diner.
7- 4, life like 2 bay hoppers custom painted for the Pennsylvania RR.
8- Main Line models 1885 passenger car built .
9 Gilbert #446 boxed, NYC Hudson, only one made with a whistle in tender.
Photos to come.
Frank:
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Posted - January 17 2016 : 07:19:42 AM
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Here are the photos of yesterdays train show finds.
The Marx, Sears set 9942.
The Thomas, Ambrose wine car.
Parts for old metal tank cars.
Four Jouef passenger cars with interiors. very nice!
Gilbert 31021 blue industrial switcher, and Arora, Joes Diner.
four custom painted 2 bay hoppers by life like and a Labelle 1890 passenger car built.
Last the A.C.Gilbert NYC Hudson 446 with whistle and original box.
Frank
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Posted - January 17 2016 : 11:13:41 AM
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| Looks like a bonanza Frank.
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Posted - January 17 2016 : 11:55:04 AM
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great lot,love that gilbert
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Posted - January 17 2016 : 12:32:24 PM
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quote:Looks like a bonanza Frank.
Originally posted by Barry - January 17 2016 : 11:13:41 AM
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Hey Barry. I got excellent prices on everything except the Gilbert 4-6-4. It I only got a good price. That Marx set was listed by its last 2 dealers at around $70. If it was on a on line auction it would have gone for that or more. I wasn't going to pay for a trainset full of cars that are the most produced cars by Marx. The only thing in that set worth anything is that ugly cheaply built tractor and trailer. That truck when people know what it is gets maybe a average price of $20. But stick it in a set of common cars and it balloons the set price. I was boxing my stuff to take it home and the second dealer came to me and want to know if I still wanted it. I got it for $35. that is what I offered for it at the last show the previous Sunday at Metuchen NJ. I thought I would get it then. I would not have gotten it for the price I paid if he had not gotten it for less. The Thomas car was 5, and the Jouef passenger car 8 each. They are about 75 foot cars with interiors. The Hudson I almost paid the 150 he was asking. I have been looking for that loco for awhile. The last few I have seen were missing the sound equipment in the tender, had no box, and they cost almost the same. The dealer was directly opposite my table all day at the show. It was there where I could see it all day. Well what is missing is info on how to make the whistle work.
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Posted - January 17 2016 : 2:05:55 PM
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gotta get me that diner someday 
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 2:40:43 PM
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Can anyone else see the gem in this lot?
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 2:56:54 PM
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They all look pretty spiffy to me, and I can't make out the price tags... Is it the Walthers coach that you're referring to?
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 3:01:08 PM
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quote:They all look pretty spiffy to me, and I can't make out the price tags... Is it the Walthers coach that you're referring to?
Originally posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman - January 22 2016 : 2:56:54 PM
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Nope... The Walthers is a Gas-Electric Doodlebug. It is nice, but not the hidden gem. It is not in the Streamliner box either.
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 3:13:19 PM
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bride and groom
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 3:42:03 PM
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quote:bride and groom
Originally posted by catfordken - January 22 2016 : 3:13:19 PM
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Ken! You of all people are who I thought would find it! Nope! Not the Pittman! Try again!
It is there... A hint... wrong box...
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 4:00:27 PM
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Well, I don't know, there's certainly a gem on the Pittman box XD. Take a good look!
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 4:04:16 PM
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sean,its the red car,bottom right ahm box name fails me,did not see it first time round,ken
mckean car
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 4:14:41 PM
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quote:sean,its the red car,bottom right ahm box name fails me,did not see it first time round,ken
Originally posted by catfordken - January 22 2016 : 4:04:16 PM
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It is indeed the Mckeen Gas-Electric. Other than the one manufacturer who makes undercoated resin casts of the shell, I only know them to be produced in brass. This one looks to be a #24 Virginian and I suspect it is in brass. Apparently so did one other bidder whom I outbid because the price of the lot soared from $28 to $163, but even at that, I suspect this to be a $200 - $300 car alone. Here is an example of one:
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 5:17:58 PM
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Ooh, now there's a pretty railcar.
Still laughing at the error on the Pittman box though XD
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 5:30:55 PM
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That's one spiffy machine alright. I've never run into a model of it, but in full size it looks like something from a Jules Verne book:
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 5:41:14 PM
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nice restoration,love it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmOSWNmjfsY
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 5:41:59 PM
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| Amazing machine. I am continually surprised by what railroad builders have come up with.
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 6:24:30 PM
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not as pointy but similar thoughts of shape,ken
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Posted - January 22 2016 : 8:31:31 PM
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It is to late for me and my opinion for the answerer has been given. I do like the gas electric the best. Very spiffy for its day. A real Buck Rogers designed speedster.
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Posted - January 23 2016 : 3:50:22 PM
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quote:That's one spiffy machine alright. I've never run into a model of it, but in full size it looks like something from a Jules Verne book:
Originally posted by scsshaggy - January 22 2016 : 5:30:55 PM
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funny thing is about this loco is
It's more areodynamic running in reverse!
If I was the museum I would truck this to the V&T & run it there 
The McKeen Motor Car Co was in Omaha, Nebraska
So that's why most are in UP
I would of wanted the IHC BN loco
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Posted - February 13 2016 : 7:52:45 PM
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Todays finds at Somerset NJ, Greenberg train show.
Saturday 2-13-16 Greenberg train show
1-Gilbert NW reefer 33520 one i didn't have.
2-Gilbert MTT reefer, 124 I have one other good one.
3-Gilbert Shell tank car, 125. I have it already.
4-Liliput snow plow in case.
5&6- 2 Bachmann New Haven E-44 electric locomotives.
7-Tyco F7A Canadian Pacific 4017.
Note: This engine matches the Tyco-Gilbert C.P.R.R. passenger cars I got a few weeks ago at a different train show. Now I have a set.
8-NYC F7A, with Athearn Drive. Maybe MRC body
9-Fleischmann 0-6-0, no tender, not running.
10-Revell flat car, Erie 4030, with log load.
11-Varney tank car, Petro-Tex, SHPX 2142
12-HObbyline, FA1 drive.
13- Building model, Airfix Village Church 4015.
14-Building Model, Model Power, Kit 404, Motorized Windmill.
14-A old box of European train couplers.
16- Train-Miniature coal unloading ramp and platform.
frank
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Posted - February 14 2016 : 12:26:06 PM
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CNW boxcar! want!
BN caboose is here
I got it Sat morn
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Posted - February 16 2016 : 08:35:09 AM
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I FORGOT TO SAY WHICH FORUM MEMBERS I MET AT THE TRAIN SHOW THIS WEEKEND.
Well on Saturday Pete was there. He was looking for a door for one of his box cars. He didn't find one at out tables. He continued his search looking at other tables.
* On Sunday wks made the show. He is real traveler and uses trains and buses to where he's going. He said he may be going to the Wayne NJ show next Sunday. It is not a big show and is mainly Lionel and Flyer, with some HO. I'll be going also so it may be hard to time when we both will be there. I'll take some pictures.
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Posted - February 16 2016 : 10:05:47 AM
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| Photos from the Somerset show this past Sunday. Met Frank and had a great time.
Tyco car that I may give to someone soon.
Various layouts at the show.
NJ Transit at nearby Bound Brook NJ.
Norfolk Southern line next to NJ Transit. Had a blast.
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Posted - February 18 2016 : 05:32:33 AM
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I finally cleaned out the guy with Marklin with a second ICE coach and the end plate for the one I'd had before. Bought that plus some assorted N scale for $35 from his helper on a -18 morning last Sunday and already have most of the N sold for $86. I'm doing better on that than the Kadee boxed cars I got weeks before. That vendor has a 1980s Con Cor Kato Japanese diesel I need to go back and buy.
I bought a bunch to flip at Springfield, too, although I made a couple errors there. But I found a Revell Missouri Pacific cattle car I'd never seen before and bought it to keep.
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Posted - February 18 2016 : 09:53:18 AM
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quote:
Tyco car that I may give to someone soon.
Originally posted by wks - February 16 2016 : 10:05:47 AM
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ME! ME! ME! ME! please?
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Posted - February 20 2016 : 8:25:36 PM
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At the last Greenberg show, this one guy was selling boxcars where someone had cut out the names of candy bar's from the wrappers and had glued them on to the sides on the boxcars....
Never have seen that before.... that was a "Classic".....
BTW... They didn't sell.....
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Posted - February 21 2016 : 2:55:32 PM
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Just got back from Wayne and the guy was there with the cars made up that way.
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Posted - February 21 2016 : 2:59:50 PM
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I did get 2 locomotives at the wayne train show today. A Life Like P-2000 E8 in PRR for $15. And My find of the last year a Gilbert Alco RSD5 #430. I have been using photos of friends locos till now. I have seen many of the C&O blue bell ringing locos but not at a affordable price. Someday I'll get one of those.
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Posted - February 22 2016 : 8:14:08 PM
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will show off what I got soon
DSL box upped & failed on me a few days ago
Also got a 24hr flu virus the night b4 I went
but still went
Atm am using Charter's WiFi signal at office hehe
oh I got a special Varney for $25 at show
& I KNOWS someone will go GIMMIE GIMMIE for it
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Posted - February 23 2016 : 1:16:10 PM
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DSL box is replaced so here are my finds from toy show
& the $25 Varney find!
totally unassembled!! 
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Posted - February 24 2016 : 02:27:29 AM
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Last weekend got a Proto 2000 NYC GP30 with DCC, in the box, $35. Five Proto 2000 first run cabooses, never out of the box, $5 each. A Walthers SW1 factory painted Lehigh Valley from 1995 for $15.
And right at the end of the show, a Tyco Bubble Yum truck for a whole dollar.
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Hey,
I bought two of those cars at Wayne with the candy labels stuck on! My initial impression was ??????. But, at $2 each for a good frame and pair of trucks I thought it was worth it. The bodies look like they were dipped in orange paint, which BTW actually matched the "Reese's label orange, so they'll just go in the scrap yard for now.
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Posted - February 27 2016 : 8:49:28 PM
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At the Allentown, Pa show today I got:
Tyco Amtrak Passenger Set- "A" Unit anf the 3 cars- $20
Tyco Rio Grande Passenger Set- 3 Cars- $75 these were like new. I bought them to replace the ones that were stolen from the mail a few weeks ago.
Model Power Amtrak Caboose, Athearn- Southern Pacific "Police" Bay Window and Erie Bay Window (for parts) Caboose- $15
Reagan era pricing was in-effect at that show today.....
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Posted - February 29 2016 : 12:03:22 PM
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quote:Just got back from Wayne and the guy was there with the cars made up that way.
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That's.....creative I guess. If I had to do it diffrent, I would scan the wrappers, make decals and color match a little better. Those cars could have looked alot better.
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A local show I picked up - a nice Tyco Shifter, Southern Pacific, plus caboose and about 8 cars for $20.
Boxed, red box Tyco "Main Central" boxcar
Boxed, blue box Tyco Rutland boxcar (no end label)
A couple vintage tin crossings I need to ID. One looks like it's for Lionel or Marx but 2 rail - but is marked Made In Germany on the back. I didn't even realize until I got it home, at $2 for the bag it was a no brainer.
That was the best vintage stuff, also scored a hard to find Atlas C420 for about half the going price.
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Today's haul from the Mother Seaton show in Cranford, NJ.....
It was quality over quantity...
Atheran UP PA-1 Dummy- $5
Athearn Amtrak F7- Power & Dummy- $20 (These are not that common)
IHC- 3- NJ Transit Coaches and 1- Obervation Passenger Cars- $25 (yes for all 4)
Bachmann NJ Transit F40PH- $5 After examining this closely it is missing 1-2 small parts,
and the engine is dead. I think Bachmann still has the engines.
Not a bad day....
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Today from the Greenberg show in Edison NJ. I meet Pete and got a couple of project locos. A HO Train CO CNJ 4-6-0 camelback and a old New Jersey Custom brass 4-4-2 camelback damaged and missing parts.
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Posted - March 12 2016 : 4:34:02 PM
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Today also I got some books.
Mantua HO Cyclopedia for scale model railroading.
Readings Victorian Stations, by Edward A. Lewis.
Bridges and Buildings for Model Railroads.
Locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1834 to 1934. by Paul T. Warner.
The Age of Steam, by Lucus Beebe, and Charles Clegg.
Model railroading for you, by Linn H. Westcott. on Varney trains.
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Posted - March 12 2016 : 8:23:25 PM
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UP PA!
*Grabby Paws!* gimmies!
buying AS-IS is really cool
Like when they say it don't run but it DOES after you test it when you get home!
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| How was the show? Wanted to go put too much to do......
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quote:How was the show? Wanted to go put too much to do......
Originally posted by thesiding - March 12 2016 : 9:48:07 PM
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* Well J Saturday the place was packed with people. There were two shows going on at the same time. Both train shows. One, the Greenberg show, with its dealers selling everything from trains of all scales, old and new, to toys, and related stuff. the scenic touches, the electronics. There were large O and n scale layouts set up and running. Dealers were selling drones. Flying them around the crowed isles. Sooner or later some one will get hit by one . It probably has happened already.
* The second show is a manufactures show with Kato, Athearn. Bachmann, MRC, Walters, Woodland scenes, Atlas and Broadway Limited. There was no entrance fee for this show and you could walk freely between both shows.
* Got to get back there today. For all the people that were there and there were very many, most were just out for the day. Walking around with there families viewing what was going on.
frank
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Posted - March 13 2016 : 8:12:07 PM
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There was alot of junk.... Reagan Era pricing was in effect again!
I got 3 Athearn "A-A" F7 sets, Two NP and one Rio Grande which I am keeping. All there were like new for $17 each set. The problem with this show and its high prices is that the show charges the dealers something like $72/table....
I did spend alot of time speaking with the rep's from Athearn, Atlas, Bachmann and Walthers.
There might be some NJ Transit products coming out soon..... per the mfg'rs
Edited by - AF Kid on March 13 2016 8:13:54 PM
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Posted - March 14 2016 : 12:51:06 AM
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I don't do Edison, too far, there's a show in Binghamton I do instead. I sold pretty well there, not a lot of take-home goodies, a few built buildings for stupid cheap, some N-scale stuff to flip, and some railroad paperwork.
It was a lot better than Scranton, where the sales were disappointing. I'm going to buy an LED light strip for the next one, I think part of the problem is it's so dark in the ballroom no one can see what I have out.
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Posted - March 14 2016 : 11:19:41 AM
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A recent pick-up I am excited about...
Can anyone else spot the gem like I did... Little hint... She's under cover!
Sean
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!" - Mario Andretti!
Edited by - Mustangs_n_Trains on March 15 2016 09:04:12 AM
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Posted - March 14 2016 : 3:46:32 PM
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| Is the hidden gem in the Tyco trolley case? ;)
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