I got up early on Thursday to try and hit the second half of my route that I hadn’t seen in about a week. The weather was downright stormy, I could see two gigantic downpours off of in the distance, including one dead ahead. I’ve always loved the rain so I took it more as a good omen as opposed to a more foreboding one. High, tall clouds dumping sheets of water on our eventual destination, what else could that mean other then thrifting gold?

I always make a habit of doing a few a passes through a given thrift store, hoping to find something that I’ve previously glossed over. That was the case on Thursday when in the toys section I saw a long “fake-wood” colored box that just screamed the 70s, it was a little banged up, but I thought it was certainly worth a look. Inside I saw train stuff, lots and lots of old train stuff. The boxes looked old, one box had a price printed of over $50, and best of all the box was just $5.99. My heart started racing as I felt like I had found something really special here. Not a week ago in the same area I had found a giant stack of sealed train models, things like Andy Boy’s Produce Shop, and the like. Well, I snatched those up at $1.50 each and just sold the first lot of 5.

Needless to say my interest was piqued in trains, especially old train stuff. When I saw the box I knew I had something little did I know, I really really had something! Turned out what I had found was an old collection of Marklin German (not just German, but West German!) trains and track parts new in box! 8 Boxed Cars, 9 boxes of track parts, and a vintage catalog. These trains are beautiful, only three of them are not in perfect condition and all of the damage on those that aren’t is very minimal. The tracks look like they’ve never been touched, some are still cushioned by their vintage 40-50 year old tissue paper. I priced out each individual piece took an average and got $350.00, so currently the whole lot is up on ebay $324.99.

Fingers crossed for a sale, I’ll be sure to update everyone if it sells and for how much! Thanks for reading!