how you doing all right what do we got i want you to check out this awesome train set
it's a lionel lionel23 you don't look that old how'd you get it
my grandfather bought it he had four daughters and he wanted to have something for them to play with
of course he bought it for him to play with yeah exactly
this train has been in my family 90 years and now we just moved into smaller quarters so now
we don't have the size to even store it let alone operated so i thought i'd bring it in here and see
what i could get isn't lionel a famous train company the most famous in the world yeah it's
one of those iconic american companies they had competitors throughout their entire existence
and no one ever came close at their peak in the 1950s they were outselling every other train
company two to one and when you bought a train set you bought a lionel lionel's been considered the
gold standard in toy trains for like a hundred years you know that whole tradition of putting
a train around the christmas tree they started it they've been popular forever they're still popular
today i mean there's entire train conventions here in town to have them you have people that build
entire miniature towns and basements and garages the train sets occupying two-thirds of their house
there are collectors like that do the lights still work yeah you know for being 90 something
years old they're not in bad shape still got most the chairs inside nothing's really been
there's only one chair missing yeah you know what are you looking to get out of the whole thing
uh total 1100 1100 um you know my experience with lionel trains is that this car right here
could be worth five hundred dollars and this one right here could be worth twenty dollars
yeah yeah so i don't you should have brought some track with you man then we could have tried this
thing i did i brought a a lot of track with me i could set up an amazing setup for you
i don't know if i need you to set up a train yeah we can set up a train we got a big space in the
back room i don't know if i need you to set up an entire train i mean i generally would like to sell
this stuff piece by piece but if you saw this thing going you would probably change your mind
i'll tell you what i'm gonna have johnny come down and kind of give me an idea of what the
cars are worth do you mind no sounds good and if you and him want to sit there in the back room and
build a train set i don't care i've got other stuff to do tell me when it's done
i got all day like there's any chance i wasn't gonna have this guy set up the train set
seems like a no-brainer to me okay let's go build a train come on
see the blazing you'll be
seeing christmas carols you're supposed to be working i mean come on god it's a
work time you ain't even singing you're just mouthing no i'm not yeah you are i saw you
whatever boss the old man is being more of a scrooge this year than usual he actually canceled
the christmas party but i'm going to get him into the christmas spirit by any means necessary
a guy came in with a really cool old lionel train set so he's setting it up in the warehouse before
johnny comes to check it out this looks pretty cool man i like the little gidget gadgets you got
those lights are the original 1923 street lamps it looks pretty good this thing is sweet johnny
should be here in a minute that's the guy who's gonna look at it all right i'll wait
for him all right you're gonna stay and help oh i got work to do me too you could help though
guess not
a guy came in with a 1920s lionel train set he and charm have been in the back setting it up
and now johnny's here to take a look because i sure as hell don't know what this thing's worth
yeah so here it is man oh my gosh that's fantastic got everything laid out that's awesome the golden
era trains were from civil war to the 1920s in 1920 only 35 of the united states had electricity
so this was the status symbol because these trains were almost futuristic
you got your working headlamps you got your brass embellishments there
all steel i mean they put a lot of work in this has two working engines here
you only see about half of these that work the wheels always break off but uh in the collector
market you want to see everything 100 original all right hey you want to see it run yeah let's see it
that's so cool man pretty sweet it was really impressive to see the train all put together
especially that it was running you know it's not very often that i get to see a
train go around the track set up with the transformer and everything in full working
order and it's definitely cool i mean i can appreciate it it um big enough speed
have you ever derailed before oh yeah that's what makes it fun man you know
i hope you look that good at 90.
you know johnny i've seen lionel train sell for thousands upon thousands of dollars and i've
seen him sell for nothing it's hit and miss you know there's estate sets that can go up in the 30
40 000 range this one here has somewhere it's been played with for 90 years it's been loved
i mean you can tell it's been loved and played with and appreciated but being that it runs and
that you got everything together to set it up you could sell it just to just about anybody
as far as value goes with the condition that it's in i would put a value on this piece anywhere from
12 to 1400. okay i think that's a little low if this was in better condition you could probably
see that it was left in boxes for 90 years it would be well if you had the boxes you could
you could i know double or triple that number that's good enough for me man i appreciate it
let's take care nice to meet you later johnny take care man all right talk to me all right um
you came in you're asking for 1100 bucks what what are you willing to take for it 1100 bucks
i think that's kind of on the low side i'm not trying to get the top retail dollar you
know i think i could get probably 12 out of it like johnny said i'm not comfortable making 8
on a lionel train you know it's a i'm gonna offer you like 800
i've been offered 700 800 just for the engine by itself it would have been awesome if you would
have took it but she did i don't want you here and i don't want to break up the set i think
it's been together 90 years it shouldn't go apart oh well it sounds like you're a little
bit more attached than i am man i'm at 800 bucks what do you want to do i'll go 10.99
come give me a better number you're really tough
about 10.50 i'll go a thousand bucks
can't go 10.50 the benefit of selling it for a thousand is you don't have to
take it apart and pack it back up it's up to you bad i can't see you walking out of here
over 50 bucks and i know that you're not gonna disassemble it and take it back home with you
you already sold it to me for a thousand buddy all right got it tell me we'll write you up and take
care of you all right thank you you're gonna take it apart say your goodbyes yeah i'm gonna miss it