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Post by seayakbill on Feb 25, 2024 13:04:27 GMT
Cabin Fever Auctions has announced that it will begin auctioning Tony Lash's massive MTH collection in the upcoming months. I am guessing it will take many auctions to complete the task. Bill www.youtube.com/user/seayakbill |
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Post by superwarp1 on Feb 25, 2024 14:40:16 GMT
Cabin Fever Auctions has announced that it will begin auctioning Tony Lash's massive MTH collection in the upcoming months. I am guessing it will take many auctions to complete the task. Bill www.youtube.com/user/seayakbill is Tony Lash still with us?
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Post by seayakbill on Feb 25, 2024 15:35:20 GMT
Yep, I received an e-mail from Tony about 2 weeks ago.
Bill
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gftiv
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Post by gftiv on Feb 25, 2024 15:47:55 GMT
Is his collection all "O" scale? or does he have other scales that MTH produced?
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Post by dennym57 on Feb 25, 2024 16:02:08 GMT
I just subscribed to your YouTube page.
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Post by seayakbill on Feb 25, 2024 19:14:40 GMT
Tony's accumulation was mostly scale and that is what he ran on his layout darn near exclusively. But in his basement he had dozens of sets and other MTH product that he did not run on his layout. Bill www.youtube.com/user/seayakbill |
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Post by seayakbill on Feb 25, 2024 19:17:53 GMT
I just subscribed to your YouTube page. Hi Denny, there is a bunch there, many from previous layouts from many years ago. Always fun watching other folks layouts in action. Bill www.youtube.com/user/seayakbill
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Post by firewood on Feb 25, 2024 20:18:13 GMT
I wasn’t familiar with Tony Lash’s layout but I’d seen him mentioned on forums here and there. I just did an image search - wow, that was an excellent layout.
Dave
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Post by dlagrua on Feb 26, 2024 0:56:38 GMT
Tony had a magnificent layout but it was in a building owned by his garbage business. When he sold the business everything was taken down and I believe moved into storage. Its a shame but many of the great layouts don't live on.
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Post by david1 on Feb 26, 2024 1:42:43 GMT
I saw Tony's layout in person many years ago and it was great. I think when he sold the business and moved he was going to build a Marklin layout. Not sure if he ever did. Great guy to talk with also.
Dave
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Post by seayakbill on Feb 26, 2024 11:31:12 GMT
Tony had a magnificent layout but it was in a building owned by his garbage business. When he sold the business everything was taken down and I believe moved into storage. Its a shame but many of the great layouts don't live on. Yep, one of Tony's sons was in charge of dismantling the layout. inventory and relocating to a storage facility.
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Post by chuck on Feb 26, 2024 23:50:54 GMT
I thought that he also had a huge Lionel Postwar collection? I remember a video with him where he stated while his big layout was being built he ordered 44 sheets of 4x8 plywood to build a place to run his postwar collection??!! He also collected wooden ducks...or decoys.
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Post by madockawando on Feb 28, 2024 13:18:11 GMT
Tony's accumulation was mostly scale and that is what he ran on his layout darn near exclusively. But in his basement he had dozens of sets and other MTH product that he did not run on his layout. Bill www.youtube.com/user/seayakbill Do you have any insight why Tony is selling now?
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Post by seayakbill on Feb 28, 2024 13:36:38 GMT
Just guessing, with Tony's relocation to Florida and travels to the Caribbean, probably not enough available time to rebuild the layout that is in storage in DC.
Bill
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Post by dlagrua on Feb 28, 2024 22:12:26 GMT
Tony's accumulation was mostly scale and that is what he ran on his layout darn near exclusively. But in his basement he had dozens of sets and other MTH product that he did not run on his layout. Bill www.youtube.com/user/seayakbill Do you have any insight why Tony is selling now? Tony sold his garbage business retired and moved to Florida. He has the funds to easily move and rebuild the layout but instead wants to sell everything off. I would guess that Tony enjoyed his model railroading fun, has lost interest and now chooses in his retirement to move on to travel, play golf and do other things. Some are but not everyone is a lifelong train collector. Tonys collection was huge and now we will see what it brings at auction.
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