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Post by david1 on Jan 26, 2024 17:47:56 GMT
Only 20 will be made, $1999.00,
Dave
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Post by runamuckchuck on Jan 26, 2024 18:00:36 GMT
Only 1 available. This is NOS not new production.
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Post by healey36 on Jan 26, 2024 18:12:10 GMT
Thanks for that important clarification.
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Post by runamuckchuck on Jan 26, 2024 19:14:07 GMT
Thanks for that important clarification. Yes unfortunately, but as the price Pat has these items listed for is considerably higher than the original MSRP; I hope that if this stuff ever goes back into production the new MSRP will be considerably lower.
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Post by healey36 on Jan 26, 2024 19:18:00 GMT
The folks out there loading up on the last of the NOS stuff likely hope otherwise, lol.
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Post by rockymountaineer on Jan 26, 2024 20:32:48 GMT
I also recv’d an email from Pat’s Trains featuring a U.S. Army 400E along with a set of 4 passenger cars… each listed for $2K. So that’s a cool $4K passenger train!!!
Those 400E’s were roughly $1K during their final MTH LCT production run, when a few dealers each stepped up to the plate for between 10 and 25 units each.
I recall SideTrack Hobbies offered only 10 special-run Christmas trains with a 400E and 4 passenger cars out of that last MTH 400E production run. And a couple of years ago at York — one of their last appearances at York, they had one remaining and were asking $6K for it. Standard Gauge tinplate is a whole other world!!! Not for the faint of heart… but then no collectors market ever is.
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Post by acgilbert123 on Jan 26, 2024 20:42:45 GMT
I also recv’d an email from Pat’s Trains featuring a U.S. Army 400E along with a set of 4 passenger cars… each listed for $2K. So that’s a cool $4K passenger train!!! Those 400E’s were roughly $1K during their final MTH LCT production run, when a few dealers each stepped up to the plate for between 10 and 25 units each. I recall SideTrack Hobbies offered only 10 special-run Christmas trains with a 400E and 4 passenger cars out of that last MTH 400E production run. And a couple of years ago at York — one of their last appearances at York, they had one remaining and were asking $6K for it. Standard Gauge tinplate is a whole other world!!! Not for the faint of heart… but then no collectors market ever is. Interesting. Makes me appreciate what I do have (two 400E's: one as part of a Blue Comet set and the other a black crackle version) all the more. Bob
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Post by david1 on Jan 26, 2024 21:23:26 GMT
Only 1 available. This is NOS not new production. Thanks for the correction. Dave
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Post by rtraincollector on Jan 27, 2024 5:43:29 GMT
I will stick with my Lionel 400E remake by MTH LOL. It's gun metal gray.
I got mine as new old stock and I believe mine was only like $600 at the time. ( I do not remember ever spending upward even close to $1000 for a complete set let alone just an engine)
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Post by runamuckchuck on Jan 27, 2024 14:36:53 GMT
Although it is apples and oranges (Standard gauge versus O scale) the Standard gauge was a bargain cost wise when it was in production by MTH.
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Post by cornerfieldrailfan on Jan 27, 2024 15:15:29 GMT
I'm not into Tinplate, but I did see a photo of it and it looks beautiful!!
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Post by rockymountaineer on Jan 27, 2024 16:53:00 GMT
Although it is apples and oranges (Standard gauge versus O scale) the Standard gauge was a bargain cost wise when it was in production by MTH. Many of us O-Gauge folks have traveled down the path of highly detailed, "scale" model train offerings. Some even fall into the "rivet-counter" category. 
But tinplate -- whether Standard Gauge or O-Gauge -- is much more charming and whimsical in nature. And what tinplate lacks in detail often allows our brain to fill in with our imagination just by the power of suggestion. Definitely an interesting phenomenon for sure.
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Post by rtraincollector on Jan 27, 2024 17:30:39 GMT
Although it is apples and oranges (Standard gauge versus O scale) the Standard gauge was a bargain cost wise when it was in production by MTH. Many of us O-Gauge folks have traveled down the path of highly detailed, "scale" model train offerings. Some even fall into the "rivet-counter" category.
But tinplate -- whether Standard Gauge or O-Gauge -- is much more charming and whimsical in nature. And what tinplate lacks in detail often allows our brain to fill in with our imagination just by the power of suggestion. Definitely an interesting phenomenon for sure. At one point I had 10 of each type of car in the 800/2800 serries ( not 10 of each 800 and 10 of each 2800, but 10 Crains etc. ) then sold them all and got into tmcc/legacy and started looking for details like seats in my passenger cars, people to put in them, then I got hooked on tinplate again but this time standard gauge. I still have postwar and modern O gauge but I seem more interested in standard gauge tinplate. I do plan to have 2 loops of standard gauge and two loops of O gauge on my 10' x 16' layout. Just hard for me to do as my neuropathy holds me back, kinda hard when you really can't walk due to pain
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Post by edlloyd on Jan 28, 2024 3:25:04 GMT
No tinplates for me yet but I sure do want to own a set one day. The 400E blue comet is my dream set. $$$$$.
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