All About Pocket Knives

Waukonda wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 11:29 pm Just caught a KCS loco leading an empty UP coal train.

TPK wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:03 am Great pictures & videos everyone!

John your painting & decaling work is very nice! Good job!

Off to work now.

Old Folder wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 2:25 am Lionel Trains was founded in 1900 in New York City, Joshua Lionel Cowen produced Lionel’s first train model named the Electric Express. It was Cowen himself who suggested department stores to integrate their model trains into Christmas displays, which spurred the well-known correlation between model trains and the popular winter holiday. From the mid-1940s through the 1950s, Lionel became the most successful manufacturer of classic toy trains. Today, Lionel continues to create classic train sets to bring joy to both children and collectors alike. APMEX and Lionel partnered to create 500 unique mint cars, configured to carry eight real 1 oz .999 Silver mini bricks available only from APMEX. Imagine having actual Silver holdings on the move in your model town – with the APMEXclusive® Lionel mint car collector’s set, you can make that a reality for your collection today.

I purchased this set in late 2021 that included 8 Mini 1 oz. Silver .999 Silver bricks which was selling at $23.21 an oz. Silver today (03/26/2022) is at $25.80 per oz.
Gold was at $1,825.30 per oz. Gold today is $1,968.20 per oz. However, Gold is not sold in "Mini Bricks" like the pictured Silver Bricks below.
And of course you must pay the "Over Spot Premiums" for any Precious Metals. Therefore, if 8 oz. of Gold were purchashed for this train car at current Gold prices, it would cost a bit over $17.000.00 yup, Seventeen Thousand Dollars.

The Rail Car is an actual operational "O" Guage railroad car. It has Die-cast sprung trucks and operating couplers. Metal frame, wheels, axles and brake wheel. The detailed molded body is custom built to carry APMEX 1 oz. .999 Silver Miniature Mint Bricks. The Silver Bricks are also stackable (pictured below) just like we see Gold Bricks stacked at Fort Knox.

Length: 12 inches
Width: 2.5 inches
Height: 3.25 inches
O Guage
Min Curve: 0-27

As of this posting, there are 52 of the 500 sets remaining. Sold only at APMEX.


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Dan

Old Folder wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 2:25 am Lionel Trains

cudgee wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 4:08 am
Great posts. Fantastic to see members posting this stuff, not only is it interesting, but informative, i would have had no idea about this until reading your posts. Thanks very much.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 11:29 pm Very cool watch and rolling stock, Dan.

DM11 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 8:20 pm Old Folder

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:12 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 11:29 pm Very cool watch and rolling stock, Dan.

We spent the weekend

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 9:58 am

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 11:29 pm Very cool watch and rolling stock, Dan.

We spent the weekend

Good post, John! You got me researching Shepherdstown and the railroad, there is some good history online. I was surprised to read that the bridge was built in 1904, earlier than I would have guessed. An even earlier bridge was completed in 1880, I guess those are the ruins from it that are shown in your photos.

Old Folder wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 2:25 am
As of this posting, there are 52 of the 500 sets remaining. Sold only at APMEX.

Dan

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 11:29 pm Very cool watch and rolling stock, Dan.

We spent the weekend at Bavarian Inn in Shepherdstown, WV and if it wasn't for the window screen, I would have gotten an awesome shot of 4 Norfolk Southern diesels pulling a double-stack across the trestle from Maryland into West Virginia. Got some better shots of the trestle and previous trestles while hiking on the C&O Canal towpath this morning.

I did manage to hit two model train shops over the weekend too. Loco Joe's is about 15 miles South of Martinsburg and Toy Trains and Collectibles in Manassas is a Lionel lover's dream. The elderly gentleman who owns this place is super nice and went out of his way to find two lightbulbs for me. Loco Joe's had a decent collection but Toy Trains and Collectibles blew my socks off.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:37 pm Being a train fan who lives in coal country......I liked this meme when I saw it.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:37 pm Being a train fan who lives in coal country......I liked this meme when I saw it.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:37 pm Being a train fan who lives in coal country......I liked this meme when I saw it.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:10 pm Very nice paint scheme and a great shot, Ike.