mook Wrote:
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> That's probably going to depress the market value
> for old model & toy trains for a while. Almost as
> bad as a big hobby shop going out of business ...
> oops, that's happened several times recently too,
> and in effect this is one more even though it's
> delayed from the shop's closure date in the
> 1990s.
>
> Need to go through my drawers (only a few) of old
> trains. Perhaps some have value, though after
> something like this perhaps not much. Since most
> of my "playing with trains" is in the computer now
> it might be time for a bit of liquidation while
> they still have *some* value...before the other
> oldefart (my age and up) collectors start dying in
> numbers too.

it's a dieing hobby, it will all
wind up in the landfill, eventually