I bought a bunch of trains out of a storage shed in Tucson today. All my other calls from down there weren't availible so I took the Honda. I packed it! Gas was 4.89 here, and 4.55 down south.
The woman's brother had a Lionel 6220 Switcher set with bell as his first train, and then bought used trains around the neighborhood with his paper route money. Not shown is a really dark - almost black - 318 with two 319 pullmans and a 322 observation in maroon with 100 series trucks, and an olive 8e with matching 337/338 cars. In O gauge there was some early maybe 152 set that only survived as peices of the motor and the bottom half of a 1918 era 820 boxcar. A beat up Blue streak, and an even more beat up gunmetal 238E freight set rounded out the trains.
I also got a bunch of Lionel bungalows, stations, bridges, and streetlight. Everything beat up and rusty. This kid had some cool trains, but treated them harshly and then stored them poorly.
I buy trains like these all the time and they weren't even worth photographing. But check out this pile:
I think the broken streetlight is Marklin - Some neat telegraph poles, some early celluloid animals, the green thing is a tin litho mail box that I like to put between the sets on my display shelves. That's an IVES warning post to let a man on the roof of a car know a bridge or tunnel is near - I can't think of the name right now, but I'll put it on the layout.
Also a Gibbs deluxe gas station, a tin pull crocodile, and some slush cast - maybe Barclay? -- Roadsters and an airplane:
The Gibbs gas station was made by my Grandfather's cousins. I have a small one on the standard gauge layout in the back but every deluxe one I've seen was trashed. So is this one:
Here's the telegraph poles. They have cast iron crossbucks nailed to wood poles. The bases are wood, and look to have been dyed green. Maybe they are Carlisle and Finch?