@BillYo414 posted:Mean $250 in 1980 is worth about $850 today which...is about where some of the engines are. Interesting.
Well if you adjust the price of Lionel's original 700e J1e..... it works out to a little over 1,500 bucks today......so yeah lionel has consistently been expensive. That said, yes the prices are still a lot for the wallet to handle.