Do you want a really nice 700E?

Amazing, only $500.00 to start.  The one Sam posted is over $1600.00.  Not my "cup of tea" but it's fun to watch.

Charly..It has a reserve. Anyone want to guess what the reserve is? 

As we all know, the starting bid doesn't mean anything. This thing will go for big bucks.

Too fragile and expensive for me. I'll keep on running my Marx tinplate from the same era. At least I can afford them and don't have to worry about them breaking every time that I touch them.

Hello guys and gals...........

Is does the original lionel 700E Hudson have more "details and piping" than a sunset 3rd rail brass locomotives ? How are they compared ?

the woman who loves toy trains

Tiffany

Hey EDDIE...Type in $15,000 and report back to us....

Eddie:  You can always bid $15,000, like Ron suggested, to see where the reserve is, then cancel your bid by saying you entered the wrong amount.

I've got one, I don't need 2 of them. I'll bet your 15 grand isn't far off.

    Sometimes I have found that you can e-mail the ebayer and ask him what his reserve is, & he or she will tell you.

BOB, You type in $15,000 let me know.

Possibly all you 700E people didn't see this, so I am bringing it back to the 1st page.

The Lionel will not have more detail than a comparable brass model from Sunset--but I'm not sure if Sunset has done a J1e.

Sunset made a J3a, but not a J1e. The K-Line die-cast model had more detail than the 700E to put it another way.

3rd Rail made a J1a and J1d. Probably infinitesimal differences between a J1d and J1e visually. Its not as detailed as either K-Line Hudson nor the Lionel J3a which IMHO compares more than favorably with the K-Line model. Not sure why the J3 gets so little attention.

Pete

I see that the price has risen somewhat. It's over $1800 now, and still hasn't met the reserve.

I wasn't aware 3rd Rail made those models too. I only knew of their J3a:

Definitely a noticeable difference from the J1e we are all familiar with, and presumably the best model of a "Hudson" in O-Gauge (Though for J1e's specifically that title goes to the K-Line).

N.Q.D.Y. Nicole..I beieve that the reserve is well above $5,000.

Thanks Eddie.  I'll not starting counting my pennies then.

  You know another way to get a 700 E is to buy a real nice 1-700 E from 1990, with or without the display case, or purchase a black Vision Line Hudson with all the 21st Century bells and whistles that Jon Z and his troops on the West Coast could devise.

Just finished a Collector's Gallery on this very subject and my opinion is the two descendents of the 1937 700 E will give most folks more joy of ownership for far less money than the original Pre-War model ever could.

The 2011 Vision Line Hudson not only captures the look and "feel" of the 1937 model as far as I am concerned, but its performance blows every other J 1 e available away.

Just a thought.

Ed Boyle

Just finished a Collector's Gallery on this very subject and my opinion is the two descendants of the 1937 700 E will give most folks more joy of ownership for far less money than the original Pre-War model ever could.

Blasphemy

Ed, You just don't understand, there is nothing like having the original one. Anything after the original one is just a copy, re-pro or whatever.

Oh, but I do understand.

However, after looking at more than several original 700 Es over the years, I found that my desire for something that looked good overcame my tendency for my very own authentic ruin.  Agreed, nothing can completely replace the original, but the mystique

 of original ownership just doesn't get it for me when I can own something attractive that is also an authentic Lionel engine, and a piece of modern Lionel history as well, in a price range I can actually afford.

There is a down side to being too much of an O gauge purist, even if I am a committed

collector.

Ed Boyle