A Japanese train set dating to circa 1961 to 1963. A 1998 Bachmann Monopoly Set Repop Lionel Girls Train Set. According to the docent, the repop flopped as badly as the original, but the original sells up to $15,000 in mint condition. Courtesy of Alamogordo, New Mexico Toy Train Depot March 2018Edited by - Chops124 on March 04 2018 1:12:19 PM
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Here's my SOTW... The Gilbert 30730 "The Cannon Ball" from 1961/62. The New Haven gondola in the set is warpedand buckled from the weight expanding which is very common with the post 61' gondolas.
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** Well here I have a Gilbert 1963 set, no box, From a past Allentown spring thaw train show. The dealer had two of them. neither had a box, but sold them as a set.
I posted this because of the misshapen gondola. I never knew why they crack and twist. I thought it was the plastic. Thanks for the info bad-bur. frank
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That's a pretty nice set there Frank. The Monon looks fairly straight and the Erie work caboose is a tough one to find. I have all the pikemaster gondolas. Maybe I'll post up a pic of them next week. I'm sure you know they're not the easiest Gilbert pieces to find in any condition.
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That's a pretty nice set there Frank. The Monon looks fairly straight and the Erie work caboose is a tough one to find. I have all the pikemaster gondolas. Maybe I'll post up a pic of them next week. I'm sure you know they're not the easiest Gilbert pieces to find in any condition.
Originally posted by bad71burb - March 06 2018 : 5:04:38 PM
yeah but the tie chucker as its commonly called I haves only has American Flyer on it
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That's a pretty nice set there Frank. The Monon looks fairly straight and the Erie work caboose is a tough one to find. I have all the pikemaster gondolas. Maybe I'll post up a pic of them next week. I'm sure you know they're not the easiest Gilbert pieces to find in any condition.
Originally posted by bad71burb - March 06 2018 : 5:04:38 PM
yeah but the tie chucker as its commonly called I haves only has American Flyer on it
Originally posted by microbusss - March 06 2018 : 7:01:11 PM
Buss, The one you have is the operating tie-jector car
The Erie Work caboose shared the same body but did not have the operating mechanism in the chassis and is a scarce item.
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