Vintage! Original!

[ScaleCraft]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ORIGIN ... 4491039830

uhhh...no.

Brush painted red or possibly to be TerraCotta, inside is Mohave, so absolutely not "original".
I have never, ever seen one of these early tin electrics with a box coupler. Again, not "original".

Price isn't bad ($23.45), at one bid, the amount of work to cosmetically restore is a lot.
Mechanically, who knows.

Add $16.25 to ship, not looking promising. Add 'em up, forty bucks.

"ENGINE IS USED(SPARKED-NO RUN)"

[rogruth]

Isn't 1924 a little early for a box coupler?

[ScaleCraft]

15 years?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

$68.00

[rogruth]

Rufus,
Does your new avatar thingee have an actual scientific name of some kind? I know some do. Some kind of Mobius (SP?) thing.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,
Does your new avatar thingee have an actual scientific name of some kind? I know some do. Some kind of Mobius (SP?) thing.

Winding / unwinding of circDNA

[rogruth]

Rufus,
Does your new avatar thingee have an actual scientific name of some kind? I know some do. Some kind of Mobius (SP?) thing.

Winding / unwinding of circDNA

OK. But that was yesterday. Is todays the same type?

[healey36]

A trip through the bead-blaster might yield something recoverable, but certainly not vintage or original. Funny, I don't recall the 254 being made in mojave, but might be wrong. I'll have to look it up.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,
Does your new avatar thingee have an actual scientific name of some kind? I know some do. Some kind of Mobius (SP?) thing.

Winding / unwinding of circDNA

OK. But that was yesterday. Is todays the same type?

A variation of the same

[ScaleCraft]

A trip through the bead-blaster might yield something recoverable, but certainly not vintage or original. Funny, I don't recall the 254 being made in mojave, but might be wrong. I'll have to look it up.

https://train99.com/prewar-0-gauge/lion ... e-1924-34/
in typical evilbait photo quality, hard to tell if Mohave or one of the olive greens.
NOT red.

[healey36]

Seems reasonable. They made 253s in mojave too, but they're tough to find. I'd like to find an orange 254 and 248 in decent shape. Those are tough, too.