@Magicland posted:Not much money? $97.50 in 1975 dollars is $530 today, for 3 15" cars. Not to mention you had to put them together yourself...
I don't want to do the research so would someone else look up what a mint three set of Madison cars would have cost in 1975. When I finally found a near mint set at a TCA meet in the early 70's it required a lot of thinking as to buy them or not. Later I sold them to help pay Property Taxes that year.
Train collecting in the 70's was a lot different than it is today. Today anything I want, I can probably find on the net within seven or eight clicks. If you owned a mint set of those cars, you probably never put them on the tracks.
