What the#$&& was I thinking when I bought....at York

A funnel cake.

Thanks to a State Trooper on Rt.30, I "bought" a $85. speeding ticket on the way to York 10 years ago.

Sell it on the forum.

Five years ago I bought a dog out by the Toy Tain Museum and took it back to Florida. Its too long a story for a toy train forum. Sorry Rich! LOL!

I think we all have a shelf of ( WHAT WAS I THINKING ) tstark

The dog was a "dog"?  Why was that a bad buy?  tstark has it right, but lately, I have

had pretty good resistance, and sometimes have come home empty handed, but still with money to cover the motel bill.

That's why I shop with a friend. Putnam Division steered me clear of several questionable purchases last year. 

 

I did purchase a beautiful kit-built PRR 2 Rail RPO car last year. Thought it would be a cinch to pop on a set of three rail heavyweight trucks. Unfortunately eBay and York this year hasn't turned up any. Never thought finding a set of 6 wheel trucks would be a big deal. 

 

I agree with Jim. Post it on the for sale forum. I'm inclined to do the same with my RPO. 

 

This year I bought a RS-3 dummy from Jim Policastro for my 2 yr old granddaughter. After studying the detail parts, I thought better of it and bought her a like-new 027 Alco dummy. She's going to have a blast pushing it around the track. The RS-3 will find a home on the Modular layout.

Sounds like a temporary or chronic case of "deal-a-holic," Scott.  Hopefully, you'll sell it here and recoup your funds which is, in a way, a "savings."

 

I occasionally suffer from this malady, at the retail store level--a super deal on something I don't need or really want.  My remedy is to return the item the next day for a full refund.  Stupid, I know.

This item I purchased came from the York of the West Coast for TTOS, Cal-Stewart. I bought a Lionel PS-1 Flat Union Pacific, thinking to myself why did I buy it, thankfully i found a nice truck and made a load for it.

As soon as my grandson shows me how to post pictures I will be selling some of these items to someone that ( JUST HAS TO HAVE THEM)

10 years and you still cant accept the fact that it was your fault you were in too bog of a hurry to get to York n see trains. Ive never gotten pulled over for being a law abiding citizen

It was not at York but a little while back at the Nicholas Smith tent sale I bought a K-Line CNW GP-38. 200 bucks I could have used on some other crap.

Funny thing is I did not need to go to York to spend money on trains...I think I funded a few guys buying items here on the forum to make the trip! 

yeah today that would probably cost you at least $500

My very first York Meet, October 1981, I saw and bought a box full of Super O track that had switches in it.  At the time I was looking to expand my layout and needed more Super O track.  I didn't look through it and brought it home.  Well, upon inspection when I got home  all the switches were broken.  There were some decent pieces of curved and straight track though.

 

So to make lemonade from the lemons, I used the broken switches to model an abandoned rail line! 

       
       


Exactly what I was thinking after eating about a quarter of mine.

I've got a few "shelf queens" but am stubborn enough to hold on to them anyway. 

 

 

LOL not train related...wife.

 

Rickc

Ouch !!

I have done that a few times from other shows. Probably did that when I got this 3 rail scale PRR M1a, to large.  But I may find away to run my mantle piece yet.   Cant say my wife was a mistake, without her I would be a real mess.    Mike

I've done that more than once. One day while stuck in traffic on my way to work I put in a bid on a pre-war 224E/2224W tender with post war 6-wheel trucks (everything I had at the time was post war) and win. Two nice pieces and the 6-wheel trucks look great. I get the bright idea to re-install pre-war trucks but wait, why not just look for a pre-war frame with a whistle and I can swap out the shell depending on what I want to run. But wait again, I have no pre-war rolling stock so at the next York I buy a few pieces. A couple of hundred dollars later I have a 224E/2224W with and extra tender frame and a few pre-war cars that never see the track.

 

Or, how about a 5 car set of 18" K-line Pullman Green Heavyweights with fully detailed interiors after deciding that my layout is best suited for 15" cars.

 

Mike

 

PS: Did I mention they're for sale?

So...I guess I actually got a bargain .

The thing that drives me nuts is that section is 4-lane, limited access, with a 55 limit.

That is the Pa. state. In 1961 our speed limit was 50 MPH.  People from Ohio would go nuts. No radar but the troopers were out there.

I bought a Lionel carnival ride last year that I didn't have room for on the layout.  I was able to break even on it.

The only thing I ever regretted buying at York was a slightly undercooked hamburger a number of years ago.   I now try to avoid the "fairground beef" burgers.

 

Andy

Scott,

Jim answered with the correct answer. The best one for a fact!

I've managed to restrain my purchases to mostly cheap bargain items which often require a lot of sweat equity to fix up. I've accumulated a satisfying collection of mostly postwar O-gauge trains in just 5 years. I never would have got involved with O-gauge if it had involved buying expensive newer items. 

 

 

I got these items with no roofs. Finally made cardboard roofs for them and touched up the paint and they look and run OK !  And they definitely look vintage.