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Grampstrains posted:
GregR posted:

Lionel's FY 2017 uptick in revenue could be attributed to the one-time boost in profit obtained from their "deaccession" of the archives. 

Wouldn't 2017 be a cash-flush year for anyone who sold a 117 year train collection?

The archives was not that old.  Most of it was sold off by the old Lionel Corp.  What remained were some Postwar items and anything made since.  Keeping all that stuff takes up a lot of room and costs a lot to store.  

While still some gems in there the most complete stuff was from the LTI period forward. 

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