Looking back is there a locomotive you let slip away?

I am a SP fan and I let two steam engines from Sunset/3rd rail get away and now really regret it.  The 4-8-2 MT 4/5 and the 4-10-2 Alco 3 cylinder.  I also regret not picking up a Weaver Pennsy passenger Shark set in any color or combination.  They are fairly hard to come by in the used market.

Rolland

Last year a LHS had 50% off on all used items.   This Lionel 18009 was $500 marked down to $250.  A classic "Let me tell you about the big one that got away".   What was I thinking?

I wanted a Weaver Milwaukee Road 4-6-4 Baltic. Weaver had them on sale at the end of the production run, but I hesitated. Now, I have no Baltic.

Drummer3 posted:

Last year a LHS had 50% off on all used items.   This Lionel 18009 was $500 marked down to $250.  A classic "Let me tell you about the big one that got away".   What was I thinking?

Dave:  you can still find these fairly easily in the $250-275 price range. I just sold a nice one in LN condition at a TCA Meet in CLE this past November for.....$250.

Also, check Gryzboskis if you have a free moment.

I missed 2 engines that I regret

MTH Central New England GP-20   - runs along the University of Hartford campus where I am a professor. I often see the 1:1 on my way in.

Weaver NECR  GP-38 - runs through the woods behind my house. If I walk towards the end of our street, I can see the headlight of an evening train. We often go for coffee at the Cushman General store (Amherst, MA). The northbound NECR freight often stops there for coffee.

Lad Nagurney

Not so much for those I let get away, as the ones I sold, for whatever reason ("What was I thinking!!") I did so at the time.  But, I have reacquired most of the regrettably sold items, only a couple I have not replaced.  But, those are so "rare" that I may never.... oh well.  All in all, I have realized, as many have, just can't have them all.... but when did that stop anyone?  Yet, very happy, delirious, almost, for what I do have and have added to what my father and I ran together years ago and I still have.

Jesse   TCA  12-68275 

A lionel TMCC Daylight steamer with matching 18" aluminum passenger cars.

I had a Lionel RS-11 in Delaware and Hudson colors, great sound, ran well and smoked well. A friend bugged me until I sold it to him, four months later he either sold it or traded it. It seems to be a tough one to find. I did find a C-420 in D&H, which I like. TMCC is fun, at a lower cost than Legacy, but Legacy is a lot easier to use, and works TMCC locos and Legacy locos. 

I let a Lionel 219 AA Missouri Pacific diesel set go and regretted.  It was at Daves, a train collectors house in Pittsburgh, when I was visiting my parents who lived there. I was living in Kingston, Jamaica at the time.  I called Dave and told him I wanted it.  My Dad went over and got it for me and I got on my next trip to the states six months later.  Some times you get a second chance.

Recently I passed on a Lionel General 4-4-0 1862 set at a train show, not deciding I wanted one until thinking about it awhile.  I was able to get an other one at the next TCA train meet in Ponchatoula, LA for less money.  Some times you get a second chance.

Normally when I miss some train item I jot it down on my running train Want List so will be looking for it next time.

Charlie

Here they are.  Notice the illuminated number board on the left I added and the wire at the back that provides power from the shown A unit to the dummy A unit lights.

Here is a Caboose I painted up to match the Missouri Pacific colors.

Packed up the train's in 2000. Working on a layout now but I think I

Missed out on some nice K Line engine's.

Tom N

Hard to say whether I did or didn't.  I had to decide between two MTH steam starter sets.  One was the Daylight and the other was the Powhatan Arrow.  I went with the Daylight figuring I'd get the J later.  I love the Daylight set, but there are times I wish I had bought the Arrow instead.

A TMCC SF 3751 brand new sealed for 500 and I placed a 710 bid and got out budded by 5 at the last second (On the bay)

Yes, the Lionel Legacy R16/R30 subway set. Had the chance to get both sadly both sold before I could buy them. 

A postwar Lionel 51 Navy Yard Switcher in new condition. And even my wife told me to buy it! 

Lionel Grandpa posted:

A postwar Lionel 51 Navy Yard Switcher in new condition. And even my wife told me to buy it! 

You should always listen to your wife. 

I should have bought a Weaver Santa Fe Valley Flyer 4-6-2.