What hard to find stuff do you look for?

[tomustang]

Now we all know our hobby doesn't really have big runs of certain trains, rolling stock, structures or perhaps an older model that's been fading away. Do you have a list of items you're always on the look out for, and yes I mean at a decent price, since I've seen rarer items go for ridiculous prices. Post it up!

Two I'm usually looking for are:

Kato HO SD80MAC
Busch Pennsylvania State Police Car

[shaygetz]

That would be Bucsh Maryland and Louisiana State Police cars for me plus and Erie or Virginian 2-8-8-8-4 Triplex in O or HO, a Bavarian Railways ML 2/2 "Glass Box" in both N and HO, and this little booger here, from the UK...





I agree with you, it's too easy to peel off coin for what we want...I like to pay as little as possible---not cheat or cheap, just frugal---, part of the fun I have in this hobby.

[Tyson Rayles]

I need at least 6 N scale 40 foot Southern (not NS) boxcars.

[shortliner]

Shaygetz - Maryland - Ebay Artikelnummer: 350514029238
Louisiana - Artikelnummer: 250956674829
Louisiana - Artikelnummer: 120436304007
Louisiana - Artikelnummer: 170273964788
Louisiana - Artikelnummer: 300644798209

Tomustang - Pennsylvania ones seem to be about as easy to find as Rocking Horse manure

[Ralph]

Painted baseball player figures...and not the sandlot kids...I'm looking for uniformed grownups to play on this field.

[MountainMan]

Appropriate N-scale figures dressed for the 19th century to early 20th century.

[railohio]

Shortline employee timetables and New York Central commuter timetables.

[BR60103]

Last year I would have said "railfans" (in model form). The closest I could come were a set that had fallen afoul of the Patriot act.
But I did find a set and saw the same set in someone else's photo.

[MasonJar]

I seem to be able to finally decide on something once the company has gone under, been bought out, or had some sort of disaster befall their production line. So the stuff would not be so hard to find if I just obeyed my instincts and bought it the first time...!

Examples include: Hamilton Model Works kits, Adler Models kits, Roco WW2 Russian military trucks...


Andrew

PS - If anyone has any of these things, let me know!

[nkp_174]

Sanborn Fire insurance maps for the prototypes of interest to me. It is easy to get local ones for here in Cincinnati, but a different thing entirely for the Oahu Railway.

Pictures of the various buildings needed to build the towns along the Oahu Railway.

Pictures of the seldom photographed places along the Oahu Railway.

As for the actual hobby supplies, I generally build my own...so cheap OR&L mechanisms (specifically the B-man On30 2-8-0s for under $100) are what I'm constantly searching for on ebay. Someday, it'll be good deals on D&RGW K-28s to built OR&L #60, 70, 80, & 90.

[shaygetz]

Shaygetz -
Louisiana - Artikelnummer: 250956674829

Appreciate the links...$27 for shipping is a tad on the steep side though...

I've got questions going out to others in your list, thanks so much for proving to me that they were made...

[Brakie]

Modern N Scale Southern 50' boxcars..Those are like finding a needle in a haystack.

[FiatFan]

MDC/Roundhouse EMD Model 40 critters, preferably the John Deere, because they were labeled for Waterloo, which is where I grew up.

Tom

[Green_Elite_Cab]

My list is long.............

Bradford Hobbies Resin EP5 "jet" rectifier electric, undec (also know as the E40)

Broadway Limited GG1s: Amtrak 929, Conrail 4853, Unlettered Brunswick Green/Black

Imperial Hobby Productions (IHP) Arrow I, Arrow III MU cars

IHP Silverliner III and IV kits.

MP54s

Reading "Blueliner" MUs.

CNJ GP40P-2

Atlas AEM7 SEPTA #2301

Atlas ALP44 NJ Transit #4405

P2K Reading GP30

P2k Lehigh Valley GP18


If anyone spots any of that stuff, please let me know

[shaygetz]

Thanks to Shortliner, I can strike the State Police cars off my list I honestly did not believe the Maryland one existed, even questions to Busch went nowhere...