Vance Glad to know you kept your tinplate stuff so you could appreciate it later on. I let my older brother have ALL my Lionel stuff (including a solid-shield Rutland box car I bought as a kid in 1956 for $5.95 now pulling $ 1500 plus in the market). But then I also told my ex-wife's former boyfriend in 1978, as he built a Reno (now for sale), "I will NEVER have live steam that small.. Are you an idiot or something? It needs to be big enough to ride on." RULE ABOUT OWNING MODEL TRAINS ===> Never say NEVER!!!
Murray can tell you that some interesting things turn up at the York meet. I also found some old Hornby O tinplate at a show in Canada last year for Mike Moore to run behind is Baumann or Bowman (sp?) O ga steamer. Sorry to hear the TCA guys in your end of the world are so wrapped up in one-upmanship. We have some in the Eastern Division; I just ignore them. And for Keith Taylor, who wants to stay out of the trash cans... Just adopt my wife's attitude. "If it runs on rails with flanged wheels, or is a representation of same.. and I like it, I will get it if it fits my budget constraints." That is why our house looks like it belongs to two undisciplined pack-rat train enthusiasts. Thankfully neither of us has retired; we will be in train-buying withdrawl for months. Regards Jim ======= At 05:36 PM 03/19/2003 -0700, you wrote: >I still have my Lionel M10000 and Pennsy torpedo, but lost the >Commodore Vanderbilt to zinc rot and a move; still have the AF >Zephyr and the Marx M10005 and Mercury sets and some >miscellaneous standard gauge pieces; still have a couple of cast iron >wind-ups. That doesn't qualify me to strut my stuff at the TCA >meetings, but they sure make me smile! That's what it used to be all >about. > >It would be cool to have some tinplate live steamers, but I get to see >Murray and Bill Wilson's cool locos every year at Diamondhead, and >that's plenty for me, I guess. >
