If you had $700 to spend on trains what would you buy?

A lot of little scenery items .... 

Track, bigger transformer and scenery items. Maybe even a Lionel Heliport

Apply it to the soon to be released SP Daylight Cab Forward. 

at least the locomotive

 

 More K-Line 21" Union Pacific Passenger cars!  Would love to have the flat end observation car and a few extra of the current fleet.

That's easy, I was just getting ready to place a pre-order for these two items.

 

1 - MTH Premier BNSF SD60M

 

1 - MTH RK Scale Alco RS-27 Demo

 

As usual, I may be just a tad over budget

 

 

either invest in a restored postwar hudson, or knock off my list of missing cars to complete sets:

2534 Silver Bluff

upgrade my single motor postwar SF F3 AB to a dual motor version to handle those five 2500 series cars

2 pack add on for my k-line 15" Broadway Limited set (REA baagage and Pershing Square pullman)

Maybe an Atlas turntable (not that I have room for it)

Williams PRR congressional passenger set (already have a k-line gg1 to pull it, and i can get the whole set for the price of one original postwar car)

Some postwar rolling stock I always thought were cool: State of Maine boxcar, bay window caboose, etc

postwar forklift lumbar loader

and if any's left, put it towards a beat up postwar hudson I can fix up

 

anything postwar i'd of course shop around and get beat up versions for short(er) money on ebay and fix up myself so I can spread that $700 around a little more

Big trees from scenic express

 

Clem

 I would buy any Scale Canadian steam locomotives that came my way or off the 'bay.

 Lately, there have been some great deals on 3rd Rail CP locos that I had to pass on.

   Darn train fund is low again!

Al

 

I have that Williams PRR Congressional passenger set and just replaced the stock bulbs with LEDs

A Lionel/MTH M10000 Union Pacific tinplate. I had one, wit an extra passenger car, sold it, and have regretted it every day since.

An Amtrak 30-day rail pass.

 

Pete

I do have $700.00 to spend on trains, but I wouldn't buy a thing.  Why?  Because I do not have any more room for stuff.  Now, if I had $25,000.00 to spend, I'd build an addition to my home just so I would have enough room to spend that $700.00.

Put the money into my savings account.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

Ditto!

I would buy that Legacy 765 on the Buy/Sell forum right now!

 

But alas I have the new one coming here any day now...

I'd buy 5-7 Williams or WbB diesel locomotives on the used market.  The last 4-5 I have bought were under $100 and in very good little used condition. I find them rock solid.

Now, that's precisely my kind of logic!   

I'd find someone to do a repaint an Engine & Caboose into some Michigan Railroad.

Actually, I think I'd buy an extra small casket; so when I die, I can take it all with me.  Now that's thinking in the future!

I do, but balked at prices for few items, such as a stray 3rd Rail Vanderbilt tender

I saw in a show (just the tender!). Nothing else at all...I have even tracked down most of the hard to find structure kits I was interested in....of course, if an unknown

surfaces...but that won't be $700.  However, IF they build what I want, I will make an

effort to acquire it... till then, the money will go for a new appliance, new vehicle....?? 

I would spend the $ 700.00 on RMT (K-Line)  Snap track and switches.

someone should buy the 765 i am selling.  

$700, huh? Gee, what a coincidence: that's the price I saw at York for an original Postwar Scale Merchandise Car. THAT'S what I'd buy.

If i could get my Lionel Fatboy Speaker, SuperBass, B-Units to work with them I would!

For some reason, the can motors in the WBB engines cause the B-Units to not make sound.

As soon as I remove the WBB from the track and power back the B-Unit makes sound.

Really ticked me off!

I would have gone 100% conventional with only WBB had that worked.

Put the $700 aside to help pay for the Lionel Heavy Mikado I ordered.

Legacy MoW crane and boom car.

The MTH Imperial Triplex.  It is supposed to ship this month. 

I'd put it towards a Premier Blue Goose or Hiawatha...or maybe a Shay. Providing I could find one!

Today you've caught me in a "Great Northern green" mood. A visit to the LHS might get me an A-B-A, EP5, and/or a postwar rotary plow. Oooo.. Black, 8 coupled, with an oil tender. A tmcc controlled crane if the picken's are slim. On the way home there is a farm I know of with long haired goats for sale too.

Wow! $700 and a hole in your pocket can get you in trouble real quick huh.   

MTH Cab Forward. Due!!!!!!!

I don’t know but if you send me $700 I’ll figure it out and let you know what I bought after I spend it!  

 

Bill

how do you come up with $700?must be a slow day at the keyboard. .-jim

I would buy a Legacy system (used??) and put it towards the first Legacy 765.