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Okay, so I'm kind of stuck at home and a little bored.  I decided to go through the boxes of Plasticville that I stockpiled for the last 30 years of buying train collections.  I really didn't bother taking the pieces to train shows when getting rid of excess or duplicate trains since there isn't that great a demand, they aren't very valuable, and they take up a lot of space for the value.  Who knew there was so much!

Too bad they aren't real buildings.  I would be a very wealthy real estate developer.  I could retire on telephone poles and fences alone.

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John: I remember back in the early days of CTT magazine, they featured a large table layout (12'x12' IIRC) filled with lighted Plasticville, with two tracks running around the perimeter. It looked like some kid's dream from the 50's, and was one of the coolest layouts I've seen. If you've got some room, you might give it a try just for fun while we're all stuck inside.

To build on Art's comment - a few years ago in the Orange Hall at York there was a layout about that size which was built to represent a child of the 50s dream layout.  Multiple tracks, multiple trains all wired as you would in the 50s with nothing but Plasticville and cardstock buildings.  It was very impressive and nostalgic to see.  It was over in the annex in the section across from where Trainworld sets up.

-Greg

Quite an accumulation LionelFlyer, great stuff. Can't use them on a layout?

They will sell at train swap meets, but it will take time. I sold about 30 pieces over 3-4 shows and got at least $5. each, but all were complete.

You have so much that I'm sure Plasticville guys will go crazy looking for rare color combinations and/ or the small pieces, like weather vanes, that are most often missing. If you don't want them, if I were you I'd join the PCA (Plasticville Collectors Association, and post these pics asking for offers for the whole lot. Use the $5/piece as a pricing guide

There are some interesting houses in your 7th pic - cardboard? home made?

 

John I am incorporating all my Plasticville into my lcurrent under construction layout into a section all by itself as a reminder of what it was like growing up with the Plasticville. Just spent over $100.00 buying parts to bring them all back to original except where my dad glued them together but will at least have all the missing and broken pieces replaced.

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