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A couple of weeks ago I was watching an auction on eBay. There was no
pictures, just a description.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1631985687
From the description I thought it might be worth taking a shot on it
thinking the statment "Has the rail station and the crane to lift cars and
other things onto the train. The crane comes with an extra train car. " so
it might be a 4555. I forgot about the auction but I had put it in my watch
list. Seeing that it closed without any bids I contacted the seller and
asked about a direct sale. Seller said, sure, meet my opening bid. I
figured why not, every once in a while a gamble is worth taking.
Well today my box showed up.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70794
Right on the top you can see the train platforms and in it were lots of
yellow pieces. Hmm - MetroStation? Some more digging around, hmmm ... more
goodies. So I started a real quick rough sort of things I recognized.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70795
Parts from 4555, 4554, 4552, 4549, 4532, and 4564!
After the kids went to bed tonight I set it all out on the floor to see what
I really had. The box had no instructions with it which exactly what I had
expected. I had contacted the seller when the auction was running to get a
list of set numbers. Seller stated - "no boxes, no instructions, no idea as
to which sets they are".
Fortunately I have instructions for all of the sets that appeared to be in
the box. So I spent the evening building.
Here is what I ended up with:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70796
4554 MetroStation - mostly complete, missing lamp posts, one sign and one
minifig.
4552 Cargo Crane - missing the small tool car (the one w/ small train
wheels)
4549 Road 'N Rail Hauler - missing four 1x2 red tiles (which oddly enough I
don't have any of)
4544 Car Transport Wagon - missing the white car
4555 Freight Loading Station - missing the building
4564 Freight Rail Runner - missing the truck
4539 Level Crossing (#1) - complete
4539 Level Crossing (#2) - missing the tower
6514 Trail Ranger - complete
6562 Gas Stop Shop - missing the tanker truck
All in all, a pretty good haul for $100. ;-)
Mike
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Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
http://www.nclug.net/ctb - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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| Nice gamble/haul Mike. Obviously a risk worth taking, Milissa would say no, too risky. Enjoy! :-) Thanx, Mark Millère LUGnet # 525 Visit Milissa's LEGO store, Millère's Spares (URL) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.nc)
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