Model Train Journal

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-1130-Mo ... 3851967631

No bids! Ten bucks! You can have a sunroof model 1130!

What is everything but the boiler shell worth since it's claimed to run? Parts value is?

Shipping $10 tax $1 total $21.

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:What is everything but the boiler shell worth since it's claimed to run? Parts value is?

That's where the problem lies.

Let's say you own a junkyard. You have a 24v generator off a 1944 Jeep. Is it worth something? Maybe.
All you have to do is find the "winner" who needs it.

Now, if someone needed to restore a plastic shell 1130, or even any other shell using the same motor block, then yes, there is a need.

The problem is, by the time a motor block is USUALLY in need of replacement, there is not much left of the shell....chipped, cracked, broken, corroded......and the quandary persists.

ScaleCraft wrote:

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:What is everything but the boiler shell worth since it's claimed to run? Parts value is?

Let's say you own a junkyard.

No, let's not say anything of the kind since I don't and I won't.

I like the one just under that for a Marx Lionel train.
2 Lionel cars with a Marx steam loco and NO tender.