Another Trainworld Blowout - Lots of GG1s!

Why would anyone pay 59.99 for those RMT 2-car sets, such as the coal hoppers, when they were just blown out for 19.99 per set on the RMT site?

Or 94.99 for the RMT Budd cars     I will add a Williams scale GG1 though  Can't pass that up

The Scale GG1's are stunning picked up a 2nd when they started the sale some time back.

Engines run great and very nicely detailed.

Probably because they're out of stock at RMT??? I don't think $30/car is out of line for O Gauge rolling stock if you like the car and no one else has it in stock for less...

 

Cheers,

Ken

If I didn't have a WbB Amtrak (Williams really) GG1 I'd have to get the PC version.......But one GG1 gotta do.......but a deal for sure!!

My guess on the RMT pricing is that Trainworld was a dealer for them before they started  undercutting with direct sales and alienating their dealer system. I'd be surprised if any dealers stuck with with them after that shenanigan. Trainworld is stuck with product that now seems overpriced although it is a big discount on list.

 

This is actually happening all over the place with the various products that have been blown out recently.  Just about every type of Lionel steamer from the 2011/2012 has been blown out at ridiculously "low" price-points over the past few months by some dealers.  Yet other dealers still have their original stock that they're now trying to move -- hoping that folks will want the items badly enough to pay the extra $$$ for them.  Some folks might.  But in general, most folks will pass as they're now focusing on the newly catalog'd items for 2013 delivery -- albeit at premium prices. 

 

Me? I'm still quietly picking up some great deals on blow-out items here and there as the opportunity presents itself.  Each week, something new is being offered at prices that are tough to ignore.    The latest items hitting the blow-out zone appear to be Mikados and Shays.  I'm wondering what's gonna be left to sell at Lionel's factory sale this month... Or worse yet, whose gonna have any funds remaining to make purchases there!!! 

 

David

If I was a Pennsy guy (or PC or Amtrak), I sure would be gobbling up those scale GG1s.  Hard to beat that price.

This will be my third Williams GG1  I paid 220 for a Silver one at a train show   Add the Tuscan single stripe and abbreviated strip brunswick ones from Trainworld for 149 each  You can't beat that price anywhere

Or 94.99 for the RMT Budd cars 

 

We have been blowing them out for months on E-bay at 69.99 as we did ALL the RMT stuff!

WOW!  Hard to pass up the scale GG1's but with two already in the barn

i must.

Appreciate you sharing that with us!!

 

I was pretty darn sure Ben was going to show up in this thread.  Can Marty be far behind?

I got a Williams scale GG-1 PRR #4935 that is a prototypical correct 20" long model of the 80 foot long Green pin striped GG-1's that I used to see running on the Pennsylvania Railroad during the 1940's, 50's, 60's before they were painted black by Penn Central after 1967 or silver by AMTRAK after 1971 or NJ Transit after 1983.  

 

The semi-scale 14" long GG-1's subsequently made by K LINE, MTH, Williams or any other manufacturer that are replica of a 1950's LIONEL GG-1 never looked scale to me.

   

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My pleasure.  I just wish I was in the market right now. Trying to conserve the funds right now.  York is coming uyp after all!

I snagged the 5 stripe PRR GG-1 to pull my new Congressional passenger cars, it'll get TMCC soon.  Look for a williams reverse board and TrueBlast horn for sale.