FA: Lionel Train Set, c. 50-60s, Exc

That's an ultra cheap set not worth your starting bid. S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster" "No shirt, no skirt, full service"

Then what would the following be worth? Two cents, a nickel? Would I have to pay somebody a few bucks to take it off my hands? It always seems that whatever you have to sell is worthless, and whatever you want is priceless. I'm looking to sell this to somebody local, two people are interested in it, and I don't know what price to put on it.

**************************************** 1 - Lionel 2-4-2 Steam #242 with Lionel Lines tender, (runs) 1 - Marx 0-4-0 Steam Switcher #400, (runs) 1 - Mark NYC #588 Diesel Switcher, (runs) 1 - Lehigh Valley Hopper (red with white lettering) 1 - Cities Service Tanker, (green with white lettering) 1 - Caboose (red, offset cupola, no lettering) 8 - Lionel O-27 curved track (completes 1 circle) 2 - Lionel straight track Marx Transformer (works) I also have a few extra things, telephone poles (~ 12, intact), billboards, etc.

Other than the brief test run I did a few days ago, this set hasn?t been run since ~1965. The Marx couplers do not mate with the Lionel cars.

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Mac wrote: Then what would the following be worth? Two cents, a nickel? Would I have to pay somebody a few bucks to take it off my hands? It always seems that whatever you have to sell is worthless, and whatever you want is priceless. I'm looking to sell this to somebody local, two people are interested in it, and I don't know what price to put on it.

-------------------------------------------------- Charles Siegel has an on-line price guide that might help:

If you have several items that you want to find the value of, you might want to purchase a Greenberg's 2004 Lionel Pocket Price Guide:

And a Greenberg's Marx Trains Pocket Price Guide:

These are inexpensive books and up to 30% off list plus free shipping on orders over $25.

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Thanks for the info!

I went back to ebay and found a lot of five of these locomotives for sale with a starting bid of $9.99 and $12.50 for shipping. A little steep to say the least.

I was disappointed because I thought it was a rare Maisto issue. You couldn't tell the difference in size from the picture.

Now that I know where it came from, it might be interesting to see if I can find the rest of them. Do you know if these trains came in packages?

There is a lot of six cars for sale at eBay. A tank car, a covered hopper, a box car, a gondola and a "cannister" car. Are these part of the set?

Item number: 3184828063

of the Month Club along with 6 or 7 other knock-offs of N

usually bought by naive newbies.

Yes, an almost perfect example of naive newbie bidders. Look at the high bidder's history. He paid $27.50 for this lot of used Bachmann N scale trucks -- virtually worthless, arguably worth $2.00 at most.

wade-kiki wrote: Do you know if these trains came in packages?

------------------------------------------------- The locomotive caem in a printed cardboard box with a vacuum formed nest. I don't know about the cars.

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bidder's history. He paid

arguably worth $2.00 at most.

One man's trash is another man's treasure I guess.