The local monthly TCA meet I bought 4 each AF heavyweight bodies, in really
bad shape though, for $30, and most of the freight cars, no trucks or couplers
and some with broken steps were going for 3 to 5 dollars a body.
In the past i would have been interested in using this stuff to rebuild as
scale cars. I now plan on getting these in running condition to use on the
American Flyer club layout though. I can't run them behind my brass SP MT-4's
but they will look very nice with the latest AF 4-6-2 engines that I've managed
to get off ebay for only $100.
J. Rustermier
--- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
>
> > One of these days they are all going
> > to figure out they've got dime a dozen
> > junk and some of us car bashers are
> > going to be very happy. That day can't
> > come soon enough.
> > Chris Borgmeyer
>
>
> Chris....Don't hold your breath waiting for the ten cent AF car body. I
> doubt it will ever arrive. I speak as an "S elder" who spent his misguided
> youth searching for old AF heavyweight cars and spliced them to obtain a
> longer length. I looked high and low for cheap cars without trucks,
> couplers, only one good end, scratches, dings, chips, cracks, etc. A good
> deal for me was something like $15 per car, but most were triple that. And
> that was back in the days when a buck was really a buck. Eventually, all the
> loose AF heavyweights seemed to simply disappear long before AM got around to
> making a new bunch heavyweight cars. Now we can splice AM cars which are
> even more expensive. Some call that progress. Cheers...Ed L.
>
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