The Most Expensive Lionel Hudson Ever!!!

I wonder how many troy ounces of gold and platinum you are actually getting.  Even at $2K per ounce I am betting it is less than $50 worth of precious metal.  It is a pretty engine though...

IDK if it's worth it because someody on Craigslist in my area had it lasted for 750!

I've seen these sell for much much less - can't remember how much but I know it was nothing that particularly got my attention.  

Now, if the marker lights were real diamonds . . .  

Judging by that dealer, I am not surprised.

Save yourself a bundle ($8500+?) and watch this one. They seem to bring $1200 - $1500 these days on the bay...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/110875...id=p3984.m1438.l2649

I believe one of our forum members bought one of these from said store for about 10% of that price.  Perhaps a typo?

Its only "the most expensive Hudson " if someone buys it...

Till that time its just a vanity ad.

Joe

A LHS in southern NJ area has one displayed and available for around $1,000, negotiable.

If I had one of those, the first thing I'd do is get out the black paint.

The eBay example doesn't have any boxes, nor does the seller list it's condition.  I'd stay away from it.

Don't like, and do not buy plated locos!

You can ask any price you want to but if this dealer thinks he will be getting anywhere near $10,000 then he must be doing crack. This dealer is also known for asking prices above msrp on new items, I just don't know how he stays in business.

Bought one of these at York, unrun with the matching caboose and display case for $1000.  Now thats a deal !

I'll sell you mine for 1 /2 of that, I'll pay for for shipping and throw in the gold caboose.

Scott Smith

Hey guys, I have a year 2000 Lionel 44 Tonner with Lionel colors and name on it. I only wont $100,000.00 for it.

Yea, I'll hold my breath waiting for your e-mail.

My Mother told me you better shop around!

Scott

As for the amount of gold on/in that engine, you have to remember that 1 ounce of gold can be pounded out to cover an entire football field.  Gold is a very malleable metal.

Well Train Pop,   You go pound it !

Christian, I already posted the link. Please read the entire thread.

Also, judging by your writing style and join date, I'm guessing you were previously known as POPPET VALVE.

Sorry Nick, I'm not popett valev  .That link is the ultimate crock if I ever saw one. Oh yeah! I'm SHUR that he was never related to the existing Mountain Lakes owners.Oh yeah, and they would sell that item! So , what did it sell for 8 years ago when you were 12 years old? 

Ed, your are so right. It's a one of a kind. There is nothing like it. Anyone have that picture of it behind the desk? Don

I've seen that picture in the "All Aboard!" book by Ron Hollander. Will have to scan it if I can't find it online.

POPPET, that was a fully documented train that went through Stout Auctions with a hammer price of $70,000. There is no debating its authenticity or whether or not the auction actually occurred. Your baffling denial of set in stone facts, insulting me on something as totally irrelevant to this issue as my age, and the rant-ending winky face to boot, are all trademarks of your previous personas.

Someone in an earlier post mentioned the loco in question was gold anodized. If that's true, then there's no actual gold because anodizing just bonds a gold colored dye to the surface of an object. To be covered with actual gold, it needs to either be gold plated or covered with a thin layer of gold leaf. Gold leaf is when you pound gold extremely thin and then cover something with it.r thin  

WHO IS POPPET ? Dennis Waldron wrote an article here in 2011? ,that clearly defines the authenticity of that item. The fact that I'm new by your standards is BULL. I bought this magazine when it was O Scale , not O gauge. I've read here for years before being pricked by you! Have a great day,.............NICK

You're not new by my standards, you're new because your profile says you joined on 05/04/12. Which is right around the time your original POPPET VALVE character got POPPED by the OGR team for the illogical rantings on the Lionel Vision Line Hudson and subsequent personal attacks on those who proved you wrong in the debate. You even had the gall to go back to that thread under your current name and continue the nonsense. Other clues to your real identity are the all caps screen name like your previous ones (POPPET VALVE, ELESCO, FEEDWATER, ETC.) and ending your posts by snobbishly dismissing people with "have a nice day". Another trademark of your arrogant personas.

As for reading the magazine when it had the old title, it's not surprising. When you went by POPPET VALVE you said yourself that you were 70 years old. In any event, your age has no bearing on the fact that you have been banned from here a number of times for recurring trollish behavior. And pretty soon, one more time as I have reported you to the site moderators.

The Nov 2005 issue of CTT has an article on the 700E prototype that was auctioned off for $70,000.  On the back cover of Hollander's All Aboard, here is the photo:

There is also a larger black and white photo of the engine in the display case in the Hollander book.

Why report him?  Just let him rant, and ignore him - that preserves boorish behavior for future reference, when he changes his name.

The real story here is the anodized finish.  A gold plate would probably cost only pennies more.  And the real real story is seventy grand for a model locomotive - I submit that that is truly a record!

O.K so.....correction, I posted a link to the most OVERPRICED by a dealer, Lionel hudson ever made....... I think

70 thousand is a high price but I thought that the blue pastel color boys engine prototype that was never produced went for six figures. Or was that 45K? Oh never mind!