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Reply to "Anyone owner of a rare/obscure train?"

Obscure?  Yes.  Rare Maybe.  Its really hard to say that anything made in a factory setting is really "rare". Scarce is probably a more apropos term.

In the train and toy business, there are too many cottage players over the years that produced such small numbers to be anything BUT rare.  Who's to say that something rare here in the US in rare in Germany?  or England?  or Austrailia? 

We also pollute rare with desirable. We also pollute rare with "its-rare-because-i-live-in-a-small-town-and-have-never-seen-one" exposures.

I definitely have some difficult to find because they were not made in large quantities or hard to acquire pieces. I hesitate to call them rare.  

We are seeing trains now from 50-60 year collections that haven't been seen or been seen in these numbers... this is skewing the scarcity equations we collectors use to judge the trains...

What galls me is the ePlay person calling a Peacock 253 rare.

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