They had missing and broken trucks, but I was able to find replacements so they're run-able. Lionel trains standard. Fortunately this one has seen little use, and ran like a champ even down to the smoke unit.
I thought since the guy was very close by I would go check it out. But eventually I did get it running. We have a winner to this thread... about 2 years ago an estate sale yielded me some premiere MTH including a Canadian Pacific sd90, Russian Decapod, and a z4 challenger and about 25 Atlas boxcars and reefers. They only wanted $375.... Everything was boxed except the flyer stuff, 3 engines, the ZW, the track and roadbed. 7 nice boxed accessories, 200+ pieces of O tubular track, 6 lighted lockons on blister packs. In 2010 I was checking an ad I had posted on Craigslist and happened to see "old trains for sale". The other was a postwar 2297WS.... 746 J freight set. Had everything that came with the set excluding the boxes. Lionel pennsylvania flyer. Of the brand lionel ¬. Shipped many items home-I didn't have room in the truck for everything! I've put over 600 miles on one of them so far this year. Old lionel trains for sale craigslist ebay. I search it once or twice a week anyway, but haven't hit.
Lionel trains scale. One set was missing the engine but otherwise both were complete, track transformer and all. Very simply, I had no where to put new stuff or room on the layout to run trains. But purchased at a estate, large collection of M1 Carbines at a steal. It took several trips to get all of it home.
I killed it last year at a train estate auction. One of the extremely hard pieces of Lionel Plasticville to find, I ended up selling this for $1, 200 on Ebay..... John. No Scores but a friend of mine in the All Gauge Toy Train Association in San Diego, spent $3, 000 on a rare estate, he said it is a lot of items of all varieties of manufacturers and Railroads. Lets see your best score on craigslist or estate sales, Replies sorted oldest to newest. It was an all or nothing deal. Lionel union pacific. Me and another friend, a 'postwar expert" went over there and came back with three boxes of somewhat rough-looking postwar equipment which we then split up at his place before heading home. Old lionel trains for sale craigslist by owner. And the price was extremely attractive for what i thought were used trains. There were also some buildings in the mix as well. I bought this little guy and another one in much nicer shape for $25: A little prep work and a few coats with a rattle can netted this: I've done much better on Craigs List buying Schwinn bicycles than I have Lionel or Marx trains though. This electric locomotive. I thought I didn't have room for an O-gauge layout but now I have about 400 feet of track in operation for a multitude of old O-gauge trains acquired in just the last five years... That was my first and only score from Craigslist as there isn't much O gage here in So Cal. I didn't open most of the boxes.
I've had tons of good luck with craigslist. What started me in O-gauge in 1998 was a visit to our old hometown area back east where I looked up a former high-school friend of my long-deceased brother. The stuff looked in good enough shape to me. I personally haven't done much with Craigslist.