Re: C&S Brass, Any Scale, Listed on eBay

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Brass-Any-Scale-Listed-on-eBay-tp12787p16065.html

I agree with you, Todd.

The perceived value of many of our brass models have not kept pace with inflation.
And as you pointed out the brief "hybrid" craze undermined the value of some exquisite individual models.

I am upset with myself that I didn't keep collecting Overland C&S stuff as budget and availability allowed, back in the 1990-2010 period. It was not like I would be building a layout to run the stuff until I retired (as in just now).

Instead of developing the skill sets to re-detail, re-motor, re-gear, paint and weather the Overland brass models, I let myself be seduced into spending available hobby $$$s on factory painted and weathered RGS and D&RGW stuff with PFM sound (Bill Peters failed to see where DCC-sound was going in the hobby as a whole). So like you, I have some beautiful Sn3 "Foreground" locomotives, that I will have to disassemble to install Tsunami decoders if I ever really want run them. I doubt I can ever recoup what I paid for them, so they continue to sit in display cases.

Silly me, my interest was always the C&S!! All this other stuff just seemed easier, you know, ready-to-run.