confused three railer owns a lot of vintage two rail..

Please email me if you decide to sell.

tomthorpetrains(at)yahoo(dot)com

If it were me,I'd sell the AHM stuff and keep the Weaver RS units...

Mark in Oregon

Nope.

Do both & have fun.  Ok, maybe sell off some to finance buying some "better" rolling stock, but if you're undecided and conflicted, set up a small 2 rail layout and play/explore it a bit. 

Do both. If you're short on space build a hybrid layout using fully-insulated track and turnouts like Ross turnouts with Gargraves or Atlas track, or MTH Scaletrax flex and turnouts. Use Ross #4's and #5's or MTH #4's and you're good to go.

Confused two railer owns a lot of vintage 2- rail stuff.  Not selling, just confused.

the stuff listed and shown in the photos is not collector stuff by any means.   My opinion is you will not able to sell if for much.    it will sell at a flea market at flea market prices for kitbashing material in most cases.   The AHM cars are pretty dated detail wise.   The Cliners are nice shells, but lightly powered.    The RS units are probably the most valuable, best of the bunch.   

However, if you never plan to use it, sell it off for whatever you can get.   Take it to a show with the attitude that you don't want to take it home, again.   

Otherwise build and enjoy.

I had bought a handful of cheap cars for practicing weathering them. I wanted to ruin something cheap before I worked on cars costing $50 and more. I see these cars as an opportunity for a young person to dabble into the hobby or use around the tree.

Phill

Those freight cars were made by Pola for AHM.  The tooling was later used to produce cars for Lionel/MPC in the 1973 as part of their "Standard O" line.  Lionel added sprung metal trucks. 

By 1976, Lionel was still trying to unload them.

Rusty

an update: I have decided to convert the frieght ca4rs to three rail with standard couplers. one of the weaver rs units will become NYSW in tradtioanl silver and maroon livery.

 the three A units will be either up for sale or similarly converted.

 being and old hot rodder and custom painter, I think the best is to look at these as near scale, raw materials..

If there is any interest in any of this stuff let me know I don't have any issue with passing it along..  also willing to trade for any three rail metal trucks