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Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby ScaleCraft » Sun Jun 21, 2020 1:38 pm

https://www.ebay.com/itm/O-Scale-2-Rail ... 3596464082

Where else can you find one of these 027 style 2-rail boxcars? Be the first one on your block! Hurry! Only one in stock!
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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby chuck » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:01 pm

Build date 9-44? Weren't these all built after 1948?
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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby ScaleCraft » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:18 pm

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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby Roy » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:40 pm

Those look like standard Lionel trucks to me. There's no explanation or illustration in the listing supporting the two-rail claim.
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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:42 pm

Roy wrote:There's no explanation or illustration in the listing supporting the two-rail claim.


It does not pay to give any of these listings that are being presented very much thought.
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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby ScaleCraft » Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:28 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
Roy wrote:There's no explanation or illustration in the listing supporting the two-rail claim.


It does not pay to give any of these listings that are being presented very much thought.

But that's what's so funny about this one. Didn't just list it in 2-rail 0, but SPECIFIED 2-rail 0.
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I mean, really, if I had known before we could call these 2-rail 0, all those similar units wrapped in old newspaper, stored in a box, in the basement....I coulda been rich!

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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby ScaleCraft » Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:34 pm

Roy wrote:Those look like standard Lionel trucks to me. There's no explanation or illustration in the listing supporting the two-rail claim.

Ah. Supporting documentation. Valid as anything on the algore, I suppose. Two places, one of which is a tad obscure:
"O Scale 2-Rail Lionel NYC New York Central Single Door Box Car #159000"
Documented, supported listing. Next:
"Rail System: 2-Rail"
Can't get more precisely obscure than that.

As far as plastic....these are usually brittle Plexiglas, or at least appear to be.
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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:18 am

ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
Roy wrote:There's no explanation or illustration in the listing supporting the two-rail claim.


It does not pay to give any of these listings that are being presented very much thought.

But that's what's so funny about this one. Didn't just list it in 2-rail 0..........


There are whole bunch of HO items listed in the 2-rail categories.
There are completely non-model train related items listed in the 2-rail categories.
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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby ScaleCraft » Mon Jun 22, 2020 12:09 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
It does not pay to give any of these listings that are being presented very much thought.

But that's what's so funny about this one. Didn't just list it in 2-rail 0..........


There are whole bunch of HO items listed in the 2-rail categories.
There are completely non-model train related items listed in the 2-rail categories.

Oh, I know. See it every day. But if I narrow focus to Model Railroads, and then to 0, you never know what you're gonna get.
But this ain't that.

This is specifically listing an item and in the "documentation" TWICE misidentifies the track upon which it was designed to be used.
I get the ones where the header is wrong, the writeup is correct, those don't get shared here.
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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jun 22, 2020 12:12 pm

ScaleCraft wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
ScaleCraft wrote:But that's what's so funny about this one. Didn't just list it in 2-rail 0..........


There are whole bunch of HO items listed in the 2-rail categories.
There are completely non-model train related items listed in the 2-rail categories.

Oh, I know. See it every day. But if I narrow focus to Model Railroads, and then to 0, you never know what you're gonna get.
But this ain't that.

This is specifically listing an item and in the "documentation" TWICE misidentifies the track upon which it was designed to be used.
I get the ones where the header is wrong, the writeup is correct, those don't get shared here.


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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby ScaleCraft » Mon Jun 22, 2020 12:17 pm

and here I am pointing those failings out. It can range from hilarious to highly entertaining, and goes downhill from there.
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Re: Uber rare and dirt cheap!

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:19 pm

ScaleCraft wrote:and here I am pointing those failings out. It can range from hilarious to highly entertaining, and goes downhill from there.


They do go downhill; I'm not sure than any have adequate impetus to travel otherwise, :wink: :wink:
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