Good topic Scott,
I am 79 now and thinking about unloading a lot of my collection which is mainly modern era stuff. I sold all the postwar years ago when prices were good. I am getting sticker shock though on selling used MTH for example and some Lionel. For example, i have a bunch of the Lionel 80 foot flatcars with scale 40 ft. trailers that I paid around $89 plus tax from dealers, bringing less than half that on the market now. One guy told me that he only paid $20 for one in the box with Pennsylvania trailers. I expected to get at least half price for some things but that price is like giving it away. I think I'll just run everything until I drop and let somebody else worry about selling it for whatever it brings. Meantime, I buy very little but I like buying new. I like some of the new WBB stuff for price and simplicity of things to go bad. I picked up a MTH proto 3 AS616 in original Norfolk Southern livery only because it means something to me from my childhood but it would have to be something very special for me to buy much more modern stuff.
Ray
