FOR SALE
FROM DENIS LARRICK
I’m selling track materials that I collected for a piece of land that I never found before the real estate market went bonkers. The rail is 3/8” x ¾” hot rolled steel bar (40 lb. rail in 2.5” scale narrow gauge, 105 lb. rail in 1.5” scale standard gauge) sufficient for approximately 1000 feet of track, including two switches. Most of it was cut for 6’-8” long welded track panels since I determined that was a length (with 2x2 ties) that I could carry by myself comfortably. Four bars were left 10 feet long for switches, along with some miscellaneous shorter sections. 1/8” x ½” x 10” hot rolled steel formed the crossties, intended to screw to wood or plastic ties. All steel has surface rust, but has never been used and most was stored under tarps.
Included are the following:
(211) 3/8” x ¾” loose steel bars precut to 80” long (1407 ft. of rail, or 703 ft. of track).
(40) 7 ½” (actually 7.625”) gauge 3/8” x ¾” steel bar track panels already welded into 80” long straight sections (533’ of rail, or 267 ft. of track, 833 ft. of crosstie material).
(4) 3/8” x ¾” loose10 foot steel bars and miscellaneous shorter sections intended for switches.
(2) 1/8” x ½” loose 10 foot steel bars intended for switch ties.
(325 lbs.) of 1/8” x ½” crosstie material precut to 10” long (roughly 1550 ft. of bar)
Using the calculator on MetalsDepot.com (July 2024), the retail value of the above is:
3/8” x ¾” bar: 0.96 lbs./ft. @ $34.40 per 20 foot bar = $1.72/ft x 2000 ft. = $ 3440.00
1/8” x ½” bar: 0.21 lbs./ft. @ $10.60 per 20 foot bar = $0.53/ft x 2400 ft. = $ 1272.00
TOTAL RETAIL VALUE IF BOUGHT NEW: $ 4712.00, not including my labor to cut it to length and weld forty sections.
Also included are:
About a dozen sections, roughly 10 feet long, of salvaged 7.5” gauge track made from ½” x ½” steel rail and 1” channel ties (roughly 40 foot fixed radius)
One 7 foot long bridge formerly used for unloading, made from 2” channel and ½” rod trusses, possibly useful for a short bridge or turntable.
(12) salvaged trestle bents and bridge length crossties, made from 1990s era treated 2x2 and 2x4 lumber, in heights from 26” high to 37” high. HO people would pay dearly for the weathering, and they are still compressively strong.
Drawings of how I designed the track panels, including a #5 and #6 switch.
Water tower is NOT included.
Price for all of the above: $ 4000.00. If you are handy with a welder, the initial work of cutting it all to length is already done. No shipping. Come haul it away in Cincinnati, Ohio, and help me clean up my back yard. Proceeds will go to a 150 foot Accu-rail back-and-forth track on property I already own so I can test my steamers. Contact Denis Larrick 513-561-6881.
From Carl Schwab
16’ steamer for sale.
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From Chuck Balmer…
I have built three gasoline powered 1-1/2" scale “starter” engines. I am asking $2,500 each. I can make them available for inspection. I still have to finish testing the engines to uncover any things that might need to be adjusted or fixed.
They all use small Briggs engines with a transmission for forward, neutral, and reverse. Each has a horn, headlight and brake.
If interested, contact me at cbalmer[at]woh.rr.com. (Anti-address harvesting in use. Please replace [at] with the '@' symbol.)
