Weaver rolling stock values on the secondary market

I haven't really seen any radical increases in prices for Weaver on eBay. Many cars can still be had for under $20, depending on what they are. Some of the special runs and rarer cars (like the Weaver annual special releases) tend to fetch higher prices in general, but I haven't seen a jump in those either.

"I haven't really seen any radical increases in prices for Weaver on eBay. Many cars can still be had for under $20, depending on what they are."

   Hi Matt, Yeah there were so many of the older common  Weaver cars made that it's going to take many years for the demand for them to exceed the supply, and as the years go by these cars become less and less "state of the art" so other better options might further decrease their price.  I look at the Weaver cars as the equivalent of the old Athearn blue box HO cars and feel they created a big boost in the number of O scale modelers when they arrived.Before Weaver it was mostly craftsman type kits of toy train style 3 rail cars, things like the Weaver PS2 and centerflow gave us mass produced HO scale like quality and value for the first time....DaveB

Definitely. The Weaver ACF's are what got me into scale-sized rolling stock. The PS2's were also great cars and a great value (I have over 30 of them). Of course, now I'm converting them BACK to 2-rail -- go figure. 

Very few Weaver freight cars will command prices above current retail prices. In most cases they will be significantly below catalog prices. 

    Bill T.

Haven’t been able to pick up any good Weavers in months on the bay.

Not much on there as with anything else lately. Lots of nice 2r Atlas cars.

Mostly old overpriced Weaver junkers with plastic trucks and couplers or broken steps.

Those old cars are worth 18 bucks at best.

Most sellers really don’t know what they are selling or have any clue about the later LD models.

Rib cars are worth the price to serious modelers. They have always been high like Lionels PS & X-31's.

Slow train market, records show much more active this time last year.

Bunch of over priced MTH premier as well. 

A few sellers on ebay have marked up their prices and have stated that with Weaver closing, the cars will become harder to find.  Asking, of course, isn't the same as selling.

Some Weaver cars that I have seen that seem to be selling above original price areat least some of the wagon-top boxcars.  In addition, the Troop cars and trailer/flats seem to sell at near original price.

I would think that these three would be good candidates for re-runs.  But, as the tooling is likely in China, it will be interesting to see if they ever are re-released.

Jim

Some of their later cars might hold their value for awhile. As mentioned already there is a small market for the troop cars so they could go up.