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Nick, you can't go wrong with quality...if you ever want to sell one, they will have appreciated in value...nothing to lose on your part.

Rog

Thanks Guys!

Nick, you can't go wrong with quality...if you ever want to sell one, they will have appreciated in value...nothing to lose on your part.

Rog, I'm not sure that I know how to do such a thing   

I have yet to get a worn out Märklin compression/blow-by wise. Do all three of yours run well and generate power to light the lamps?

I have about a dozen in this style and have only ran 2 or 3 of them... but yes I am very happy with Märklin build quality, and please don't bid against me   

What? You have a dozen but only ran a fraction of them?? What are you waiting for?

Back before I had a family and a house to pay for I was getting 3 to 4 packages in the mail a day, 2 or 3 accessories and 1 or 2 engines. I was working 90-105 hours a week (many 16 hour days) and had no time to do anything with them other than open them up and make sure they were dry and good for storage. I had an entire bedroom at my parents house with full shelves. As Walter pointed out to you when you mentioned the dust on his engines, it would be a full time job cleaning all of them... It took me nearly 2 years just to get the engines out of their house and moved over onto shelves. Someday I will get around to playing with them all and I have plenty of projects awaiting my retirement (if that ever happens  ) I have often thought of selling off a good portion of the collection to fund something larger, but I am no good at that and don't think I have sold ore than two dozen engines from the collection over the past 15 years.