400E How many do you have?

Terry,

 

I want to hang out in your basement!!!

 

Sunrise

anytime,anytime !!!

I was thinking of a repo.  That set came from Syracuse and was sold,probably more than 5 years ago.  The set was absolutly mint with a history.

I don't mean to hijack this thread....that is one set that I would want.

Maybe Wurlitzer will chime in being from the Salt City.

Norm

Yes, I call it the quarter million dollar set.  It was purchased from an estate sale here in Syracuse.  I don't recall the buyers name but I believe he was a contributing member of this forum a while back.

This set was purchased originally by a store merchant who apparently collected many other toys of the time.  The house was reportedly full of antiques of all types.

Back on topic, I would probably add a replica of this particular set if it was made by LCT (MTH).

Terry,

I love your photos and your right.  I'd buy another 400e with a coal tender particularly if the tender were a bit longer.  But if MTH is going to lengthen the tender, why don't they go all out and lengthen the engine too into something similar to the Liberty Lines 600E.

 

Bob Nelson

 

Liberty Lines 600E 

I believe this is the 400e with coal tender that was referred to by Hojack. It resides in  the DeSantis collection.

 

 

 

Ever see any original 400Es around for sale?  I probably shouldn't say this, but I bought over the weekend originals 384E and a 385E.  I have a restored 390E that I really like.  Not a great runner, it has some quirks, but we have an understanding now and it works for both of us.  I should have those new guys in a couple days.  Keeping fingers crossed that they run well.  They look nice.  I've had really good luck so far.  Then it's just a matter of finding a nice 392E and a 400E, if there are any around.

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Scott Smith

 

Surprising how it changes the look of the 400.  Nice photo, to see them together like that, thanks.  Actually, that coal tender doesn't look all that much bigger than the 392 tender. A little different style, but judging from the two 6-wheel trucks on each tender, comparing Terry and Arno's pictures, they look comparable in overall size.  Fun idea to play around with.

 

 

There is a real nice looking original Blue Comet 400E on EBay right now with a starting bid of $1700.  Ohhlala...

It would be nice to be rich.

Here is an example of the 400E in that 250,000 set.

Trim it out like this and add Ivory window State cars and a repo is made.

This is the one thing I would like to see conventional only with the chugger.

Nice pictures.  Two hundred and fifty grand.  Nobody should be that filthy rich.

Great pics everyone!!

 

Just wondering though. I have noticed some of the 400e's come with nickel or brass bands around the boilers which I thinks adds a classy touch, and others are not offered this way. Is this the type of trim that one can add to the engine later on?

 

Also, are the 400e and the 408E's the only engines that can pull 200 series cars without bending the couplers?

 

 Just Curious,

 

JoeG

Some 400e's were sold with brass or nickel boiler bands, others with painted bands.  It is not something that can be changed out.

 

 

But if you were offered that kind of wealth, you would take it instantly, with no hesitation.  So let's keep the judgements of other people at a minimum, shall we?  Anyone who can afford to contemplate buying standard gauge trains like the 400e would be considered outrageously wealthy by about 90% of the world's population.  There are millions of people on this planet who would resent your level of affluence as well.  To have wealth is not necessarily to be "filthy". 

 

 

 

Two hundred and fifty grand for a toy train set.  And he'll probably never take it out of the box. In my world, that is pushing the envelope of sanity and other words I can't conjure up right now.  I have no problem with people being filthy rich, or what they do with their dough, so I will let it go and say I was wrong.  Enjoy your toy trains.

 

He probably keeps it in a locked vault underground..., probably never built a layout in his life..., probably has a..... 

Ok, it's all good.  

Actually, he brought the set to a train meet in California and ran it.

He occasionally brings very rare items to the TCA WD meets and takes them from the boxes and displays them.

 

Steve

No kidding.  Unbelievable.  Wow!  What is it?  A blue comet 400E with about seven passenger cars?

Nope. 400E with four Green State cars.

 

A Blue Comet was 3 cars back in the day.