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Ok, well i picked up the 'job lot' today, was a bit of a trip but well worth it I believe for what I got.

I should apologise this is quite a long post, but that's because there is so much, but there are some interesting bits and bobs too

I've only looked through the two boxes of loco's & rolling stock so far, none have been cleaned etc... yet, I was just looking to see how many work and how many are DOA.

These are the working ones, they are in varying condition, a couple missing push-rods, a few need a new traction tyre or two, some bodies are a little tired or needing new stickers, but most will be ok once cleaned. There are also a couple of duplicate loco's, but some of these are variants

Anyway no more delays the working loco's (21 of);

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These following ones are currently DOA, although the two with tenders I think may just be electrical connection issues as one for example has no wires between the tender and loco, the tank loco's I'm not sure about and may need new motors or something - or they may just get cannibalised to provide say push-rods for the running tank engines that need them (5 of);



Unexpectedly I also found a number of die-cast Thomas loco's in the boxes, these are shown below, I'm not sure the makers of these (need to get a magnifying glass as my eyes are not what they were) but a similar scale coach among them was ERTL;






Other highlights were a couple of 'trailer' cars for bullet trains including one of the Eurostar ones, unfortunately the rest of the trains have not turned up yet, but hey-ho still good stock for the 'spares' box



There was also a motorised truck and bus that are working fully along with two more buses that need a bit of 'fettling'



I've not bothered to photograph the rolling stock, but there is a good selection of trucks, tankers, carriages etc... some trucks with cargo's even, probably around 50 in total. However there were a few odd things in there which are below;



Still to be sorted through are another 7 (yes 7) curver boxes of goodies, 2 are full of buildings, 2 full of track (mostly std blue, some older dark blue), 1 of road track, 1 full of the yellow 'supports', 1 a mix of supports and blue track. Things I noticed when stacking them in the garage includes an airport, road crossing, bridge sides (red and green). When I finally get round to going through them I'll post any highlights here

Phew! Nigel

Ho ho ho, what fun! You've got some hours to put in cleaning and sorting, but what a good selection.

That's Donald's #9 tender by the way, you've got a picture of him without it earlier on.

The ones with the rigid red couplings are indeed Ertl as you suspected, and the ones with lego-style studs and magnetic couplings are Tomy Train, which came with the dark blue tracks.

Yes, some time to be put in for sure and some spare parts to be sourced, but well worth it in the end I think.

Thanks for the info on the odd bits and bobs at the end, I'm not sure what I'll do with those, I may put them up on EBay or see if anyone here is interested

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While I think of it, does anyone here have scans of stickers for the Thomas range of loco's or know anywhere I can get them?

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Very nice haul. I miss the days of large bulk purchases, the hot soapy baths to soak the parts to clean them up and the disassembling to troubleshoot to make them work....ahhhhh...those were the days

Why does it have to be "those were the days" Super? Don't want to do it anymore or has the "little lady" put an end to that particular avenue of enjoyment? hehehe?

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Why does it have to be "those were the days" Super?

I have literally spent thousands of dollars to get everything we have wanted or needed. I wouldn't change a thing though as we sure had fun doing it. Except for a couple soon to be released Plarail trains, there just isn't anything we are interested in left to buy. I have also accumulated hundreds of parts from those bulk purchases with can't fix, broken trains to fix just about anything which should come in handy for the future generations in case they run into problems. The parts and the hundreds of tracks, buildings and trains we have will be stored away for future generations to enjoy or to sell, if they so choose, in hopes of a profit. I do get pleasure in looking at what the members here purchase and enjoy all of your enthusiasm receiving your packages as I know the feeling.

Hmmm, that does resonate with me over some of my other "little" collections