rrjjf posted:In my opinion, the best thing that could be obtained from the old AN line would be their power trucks and power truck components. I did see some of these for sale at the last Chicago meet and the asking prices was somewhat higher than I was willing to pay as I have a decent supply of these trucks "In stock" for future projects.
Yes, the drive components do seem to be in demand and sell well - I have seen entire drives sell for more than entire engines. Would seem to suggest that re-powering or powering other items remains a healthy practice and that the body shells are of marginal real value, and maybe even a detriment to selling the drive units.
There was also a traction freight trailer line from All-Nation (Zimmer?) that might be slightly attractive - those kits tend to sell better that the regular freight car kits. There were also some South Shore kits that also sell well when they surface. The drawback to all these is that the O scale traction community is small subset of O scale and that limits the market. OTOH, there's next to zero competition for a source of reasonably affordable kits of such cars.
