good local buys

won all these on a local auction site yesterday, for cheap as chips. i love when items close in the middle of the day when everyone else is at work.

for $60NZD including post, i got all this.

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Very cool. Those multi colored flex tracks will come in handy for your colorful show displays.

super, thanks. those flexis were the bits i wanted most. was prepared to pay $30 just for those, and got them for $5! the rest was just too good to pass up

I have a similar 500 series Shinkasen except it has a light gimmick and a 2012-2014 version.

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I just took a closer look at that red crossing in the lower picture. Is that a train crossing both ways? Thats pretty neat. I don't think I have seen anything like that before. Too bad it looks like the gates are broken.

yes, its from the vintage dark blue tomy range. originally it came with grey ramps for the cross roads, for the old tomy vehicles. this is before the thomas road was released. yes, the arms are broken, as they often are. even my own one didnt escape in one piece. just a thin plastic that broke easily.

theres photos of a boxed one here, that shows the ramps: http://sunsthomasandfriends.weebly.com/v...ories.html i must admit to never creating a rail crossing with it, as that wasnt how the box showed it. i may be contrary in so many ways, but if something is shown to be used a certain way, then gosh darnit, thats what im going to do, lmao.

trainboy, i didnt know there was one like that. good score.
at $5 each, i wasnt going to pass these up, even though ive already got several of each. worth it just for the middle car to make my own ones longer. the seller has other pieces and is going to send me photos, so hopefully can do a private deal.