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@T1Titan_ZachF posted:

You are right on that one. Sadly ebay is turning into a "bid" instead of a "Buy It Now" site to buy model trains 

Can't say I agree with that. Ebay was originally supposed to be an auction site. With the proliferation of "Buy It Now" ads, it becomes more of a retail advertising site for dealers.

Lionel should making more but hey will rather makes things that are redone so many times. How many F7's can  you make. I think that I will take mine apart and make silcone molds from the one I have a reproduce. These manufactures are sometimes a pain. A $89 item worth 50 costing in the end half a grand. That is BS.

Shurlock, it is all about the money.  Not for nothing these cars were at the Dealers for a long time.  Charlie Ro had many of them.   You can not blame Lionel for a person not stepping up to the plate.  They can make more on an F-7 than a cab car.  I plan on following what Max threw out.  I have  some of these cars.   I liked them when they first came out and did not care if they grew in value , I just liked them.  I live on the Northeast Corridor and do not see these here with Amtrak trains.

My friend Chris Lonero and I added some full lighting.  The frosting on the cake would have been plating like MTH did.  The car has the flat look like Atlas cars.

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Marty Fitzhenry posted:

Shurlock, it is all about the money.  Not for nothing these cars were at the Dealers for a long time.  Charlie Ro had many of them.   You can not blame Lionel for a person not stepping up to the plate.  They can make more on an F-7 than a cab car.  I plan on following what Max threw out.  I have  some of these cars.   I liked them when they first came out and did not care if they grew in value , I just liked them.  I live on the Northeast Corridor and do not see these here with Amtrak trains.

My friend Chris Lonero and I added some full lighting.  The frosting on the cake would have been plating like MTH did.  The car has the flat look like Atlas cars.

The reason these did not sell at first was because the HHP-8 with the set had lousy motors and known issues. Many of these were returned to Lionel.  I witnessed these at Canfield.  I canceled my cab car order due to the problem plagued and returned HHP-8.

Later the bigger motored version with TMCC came out and lots of us who still had the Amfleet  part of the set aquired the improved HHP-8.  Then interest in the Cab car awakened.  

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