Allis Chalmers Scraper and Flat Car

Thanks for the info Rattler. I bought a cheap flat car to use in building a track cleaner so no intensions of marrying it to my scraper. Just seen the auction on this set and the price blew me away. Same thing happens on some farm models where the bid goes way beyond realistic value. Armand

What you see for that specific item is correct. This is a rare variation with the wire windshield and the AC markings

Here is the more common version MIB is still $1k:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel...&hash=item1c227380d2

the value is in the scraper which was very easily broken, here is the value of just the flat car without the scraper. $20

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL...&hash=item484365cec7

hope this helps.

Also Lionel reproduced this car about 8 -10 years ago. The number is 6-26024.

These look close to the originals but can be had for about $80.00 or less.

Some people will pay big money for mint in the box postwar items. This listing you posted on ebay is just one example.

Others would like to have items like that in their collection but can't afford too. So Lionel has made reproductions of items like that over the years so even the common model railroader can have one in their collection.

I loaded the ebay page and saw that the 4 figure price bid...

This is way ah never mind.

I have had a first gear die cast tractor and I think there is a crawler in 1/50 hiding somewhere. And they were rather inexpensive.

When the big money starts bumping wallets like this, stay out of the way. There will be others coming along in the future if this is what you are looking for.

Here is my pix of a Allis-Chalmers Scraper on a Atlas trainman flat car.