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Post by tony on Jul 20, 2024 11:14:57 GMT -8
Saw another email this morning about some Walthers HO freight cars on sale for $9.99. You probably have seen them too. Several online web-sellers have several of the Mainline brand on sale because they just are not selling for some reason. Certainly not selling like the Tangent Rock Island caboose models are. It's not just one model, but several that have been discounted to move. In some cases, it seems they can't even be given away.
A couple of these models have more detailed offerings from another vendor which I think is one part of the situation. Another part is that the demand for highly detailed freight cars remains high - it's like a drug and a lot are hooked.
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Post by milgentrains on Jul 20, 2024 14:39:56 GMT -8
I would prefer to have the Walthers car and have money left over for things like food.
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Post by cn2240 on Jul 20, 2024 18:01:39 GMT -8
The market differs from car to car when it comes to whether people are willing to settle for a budget car or go for the most detailed one available.
When it comes to the Mainline 59' Cylindrical Hopper for example, several of them have sold pretty well and many from previous releases rarely come up for sale nowadays. This is despite there being more highly detailed and prototypically accurate models being offered by Intermountain and NARC. I remember once visiting a shop that doesn't have an online store a couple years ago and being surprised that they were still selling both the CNWX and CPWX models in the Red Canada scheme since they had long been sold out everywhere else.
I generally go for the most detailed model for rolling stock nowadays since they do look better imo and I don't need to get more than one road number of said model so I'm not spending that much more $.
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Post by wagnersteve on Jul 21, 2024 3:11:53 GMT -8
7/21/2024, starting about 7 a.m., EDT
In case anyone is interested, I generally am more apt to pay for an expensive, exquisitely detailed model of a freight car if it accurately represents either 1) one used by the railroads that interest me most (D&H, B&M and a few others or 2) one which I have strong memories of seeing in service, such as a NYC Flexi-Flo cement hopper. I'm usually less particular about others. I have some cars simply because I like their paint jobs. I don't object to Kadee's using the same underframe casting for early PS-1 40' boxcars as for others although the crossways components are not correctly located. Kadee's cast plastic rooftop running boards are excellent; the ones on many Walthers Mainline boxcars also look better to me than brass etchings that actually appear to be too thin and often wavy.
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Post by 12bridge on Jul 21, 2024 7:49:13 GMT -8
For what its worth, there is plenty of shelf queen/dead stock "high end" cars at all of the big sellers stores like Lombard/Spring Creek, etc. at blow out prices. I have seen that Tangent 86' boxcars as low as 29$.
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Post by upcsx on Jul 21, 2024 8:10:33 GMT -8
Wish Lombard lower the price on the Tangent CSX coal hoppers.
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Post by avel on Jul 21, 2024 9:05:13 GMT -8
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Post by avel on Jul 21, 2024 9:07:41 GMT -8
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Post by grabirons on Jul 21, 2024 13:12:15 GMT -8
Did the initial first run sell well and then they sold out and then they came out with another run and made too many? Or what's the deal.?
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Post by tony on Jul 21, 2024 18:10:50 GMT -8
I would prefer to have the Walthers car and have money left over for things like food. I hear that. We are getting closer to the $100 HO freight cars price point - caboose car already there. Food is good and it's getting to the point of a reset - especially if the "toys category" is included in the next wave of tariffs. |
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Post by lvrr325 on Jul 22, 2024 0:26:09 GMT -8
Shelf life on trains is about three weeks. If it doesn't sell by then it's going to sit a long time, sometimes things get hot when they have been out of production long enough to be hard to find, and other times you might have to leave directions in your will how to dispose of them.
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Post by Baikal on Jul 22, 2024 3:56:28 GMT -8
I would prefer to have the Walthers car and have money left over for things like food. I hear that. We are getting closer to the $100 HO freight cars price point - caboose car already there. Food is good and it's getting to the point of a reset - especially if the "toys category" is included in the next wave of tariffs.
Prices of consumer goods including models will keep increasing as long as:
1) The standard of living in China continues to go up. 2) The US keeps printing money to fund 800 military bases in 80 countries and endless conflicts around the world. |
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