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I had to go to up north today to a supply house that I deal with for my lawnmower repair business and remembered on my way up there that the local TCA chapter was having a mini meet in a diner parking lot not to far from where I was going.
I did not expect much but boy was I wrong !!!
I picked this batch of stuff up....
This cost me 4.00....
These kits are built and nice.
Boxes are little "ratty" but all there.
5.00 each.
My kid found this one !
This was the "home run" of the day.
40.00 original box nothing broken and runs like a watch !!!
The average price for these at York are between 50 to 80 dollars for broken ones and 100 to 150 for decent ones.
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Posted - August 16 2008 : 4:31:48 PM
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Good for you...I can't imagine a TCA member letting that Big Boy slide for $40.
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Posted - August 16 2008 : 4:51:19 PM
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| i am definatly leaving home cannot get one of those over here for less than 200 dollars,great find lucky fella ken
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Posted - August 16 2008 : 6:26:39 PM
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Hers a video of the Big Boy running on the kids layout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCftQOa2PVA
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Posted - August 16 2008 : 6:29:41 PM
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| looks good sounds good and it does ya good ken
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Posted - August 17 2008 : 9:29:00 PM
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Congratulations on some outstanding buys. Just to give you an example of how good your $5.00 per kit purchase price really is, eBay item 380054274498, an identical U S Navy Flatcar Kit sold this evening for $66.00 plus $6.95 shipping, total $72.95. Way to go Guy!
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Posted - August 17 2008 : 10:36:02 PM
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GOOD GRIEF THATS INSANE !!!
I cant believe that car is worth that much !
Thanks for the "heads up" loopy...you will
have to exscuse me now while I go retrieve
that car from my kids layout.
BT
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Posted - August 18 2008 : 3:25:20 PM
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Wow... that big boy is an awesome find! I have never come across one at any of the shows I've been to except just a week or so ago. It was almost all intact and probably ran but was pretty busted up in the front; I was almost tempted to make an offer, but had no idea where I'd find the missing pieces and how to get them without paying the same money all over again. But after seeing and holding it in my hand - yeah, me wanty.
But that will have to wait...!
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Posted - August 20 2008 : 12:53:08 AM
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BT, can you teach me your powers of persuasion? Did you swing a pocket watch in front of the sellers?
You absolutely stole that Big Boy. That would go for $150 or more on evilBay. I bought one when I was 12, and ran the bejeezus out of it. Still runs today, with only basic maintenance. Yours is the only other unit I've seen that had the unblackened can motor. I've since swapped it for a blackened one from an old O scale IHB 0-8-0 kit, but only because of the color. It still ran perfectly.
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Posted - August 20 2008 : 10:06:32 AM
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Hi Nelson.
No "powers of persuasion" here.
That Big Boy was marked at 40.00.
I did not have the "nerve" to ask the vendor
to take less...I did not want to gum up the deal.
For the record the vendor was primarily a postwar
Lionel seller with very little HO to speak of on his table.
So that could have something to do with the low price.
Also for me that show was a "throw in" I never would have
driven to that show . The only reason I was in that area that day was
because I had to take care of some other business in north Jersey.
Sometimes you go to these smaller shows and "hit the lottery"
but for the most part its a waste of time.
I am still shocked over the U.S. Navy flatcar kit I bought for 5 dollars.
Loopandhook brought it to my attention the next day that one sold for
66.00 on evilbay ...that made this adventure all the more better!
BT
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Posted - August 22 2008 : 4:35:43 PM
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So all of this HO scale goodness was right here in northern NJ? Double ouch! 
Not that I need any more stuff... 
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Posted - August 22 2008 : 4:59:56 PM
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Well actually I guess west Jersey...The Clinton Station Diner in Clinton NJ.
Thats the diner with the old Blue Comet observation car built into it.
I live in South Amboy...anything on the other side of the Raritan River is north Jersey to me
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