@franktrain posted:
I believe I read several days ago in a "postwar" posting thru Collector's Weekly that the #223 was considered to be the rarest of the SF Alcos. Really? Not to trample on someone's idea of a good loco, but those Alcos are like child's toys compared to much better running, better looking, better detailed early postwar Alcos that were ditched by Lionel by the mid-to-late 50s. You need to be a stamp-collector to want to spend seven hundred bucks on a POS like those babies, but some people hate their money, I guess.