I understand the potential resale value of items, especially brass, but
my personal opinion is that these are things I enjoy *now*. When I die,
the whole layout and all that's on it can be taken to the dump, for all
I care. You can't take any of it with you anyway. :-)
I had a fellow S-scaler out-of-town visitor today and he enjoyed the
demo of the S-CAB system. He is potentially considering S-CAB for some
brass engines that are giving him trouble.
At this point I am planning on bringing my S-CAB items to the NASG
convention in August, if any of you are interested in a demo at that time.
- Peter.
On 03/26/2013 4:34 pm, scale S only wrote:
Hi Bill --
Interesting point, but if one doesn’t gut the basic workings of the
model, it should be relatively easy to restore to another form of
control. I can see where the SHS locos with complex electronics
might be a bit of an issue (or the new Lionel), but it shouldn’t have
a huge impact on a plastic model’s value. So far, we have not seen
high priced brass models with electronics complex enough or critical
enough that removing what is there should have a big impact. In
Peter’s FA-2 case, how much is he going to loose on the _used_ basic
model? Not enough to care about, I don’t think. Better that he
should have the performance _he_ is after...
Some of you might already know that I really don’t care about the
ultimate value of my rolling stock. Very few of my pieces hit the
rails in their original form, brass included, so the “collector value”
is largely destroyed, not to mention that I RUN these things, and
there is evidence of this on wheels and in their superior performance
to most out of the box models. It is a form of entertainment, and by
the time I am done with it, there will probably be so much of the
stuff on the used market it will have no significant value anyway.
Only my heirs will care, and they not much.
I am seriously considering following Peter’s lead and converting my
switch engines to S-CAB...
Have fun!
Bill Winans
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