I think the estimates for that loco are good. I was at the Cleveland show 2 weeks ago, and one did not sell there for $750 that had a decent paint job. I think I would settle for that amount with no problem. One of my friends was trying to sell it.
When they came in the early 60s, they probably sold for much less than $200. I remember ads for the later USHobbies locos listing them for $196 for a couple different ones in the late 60s. A $1000 engine in those days would probably be a custom built one of a kind model of something special. A model of something the importers were ignoring.
