Canadian Railroads > $450 slide on the auction site question

CP 1403 passenger train shot.
Curious what’s so special about it to warrant the fight. 7 bidders.
First-out seller.
Really nice shot.
Usually it has to be Milwaukee Road to warrant the money

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Just took a look. 

No idea why.  Will be interesting to see the final selling price!

SD45X Wrote:
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> CP 1403 passenger train shot.
> Curious what’s so special about it to warrant
> the fight. 7 bidders.
> First-out seller.
> Really nice shot.
> Usually it has to be Milwaukee Road to warrant the
> money
>
> Posted from iPhone

Link?

Michael

Certain slides as of late go for absolutely INSANE money.   Only to never, ever be seen again.  

 

Mberry Wrote:
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> SD45X Wrote:
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> > CP 1403 passenger train shot.
> > Curious what’s so special about it to warrant
> > the fight. 7 bidders.
> > First-out seller.
> > Really nice shot.
> > Usually it has to be Milwaukee Road to warrant
> the
> > money
> >
> > Posted from iPhone
>
> Link?
>
> Michael

One can eaily look it up, as I did.

4489 Wrote:
> One can eaily look it up, as I did.

Yeah, but since you already have the link it would be nice if you'd just post it...

Keith Robertson
Langley, BC

LKeithR Wrote:
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> 4489 Wrote:
> > One can eaily look it up, as I did.
>
> Yeah, but since you already have the link it would
> be nice if you'd just post it...

I thought that we were not allowed to post links, especially from certain auction sites.

Seller also has a bunch of slides between $50.00 and $127.50. All with bids currently. Just type railroad slides in the search field. Once you have slides showing, sort by highest first, find the one at $456.00,  then you can see sellers other slides.

Valleyman

That’s why I didn’t link it:)
CP 1403 search. Should bring it up:)

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I recall from a few years back a discussion on this site about one "Cheese-Headed Dad" who was spending all kinds of serious money on ebay train slides. He disappeared back into the woodwork in short order.

Ray 

I sell slides on EBAY and frankly have no idea what motivates purchasers sometime. Slides I thought were ORO ( old, rare, obscure ) sold for base price, others that I listed as afterthoughts sold for $70-80 each.
Some goes for subject matter, certain fallen flags are hot commodities, others won't sell for love or money regardless the quality and location of the slide. !!!!!

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

For those that care! The new high as of this morning is $496.00, with 7 hours to go.

Valleyman

don't tell him he can see stuff like that on t/o for 35$ a year

maybe he has dementia

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Slide-Canadian-Pacific-CP-1403-INCREDIBLE-Passenger-Scene-May-1970/372524348282?hash=item56bc2e737a:g:TM8AAOSwikJcBw2s:rk:1:pf:0

lotta other neat slides from bn/gn

https://www.ebay.com/itm/DUPLICATE-SLIDE-Great-Northern-GN-LITTLE-CHIEF-MOUNTAIN-Observation-Action/372523271913?_trkparms=aid%3D333200%26algo%3DCOMP.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D55164%26meid%3Da3d78991b04047b58c49310bd39e4b15%26pid%3D100752%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D372523271810%26itm%3D372523271913&_trksid=p2047675.c100752.m1982
 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/18 09:41 by dan.

The image shows the "Canadian" behind CP 1403 somewhere in the Rockies in 1970. Note the lack of ditch lights on the locomotive, and the packaged mail boxcar behind the units.

From the morning sun , my guess is this is the eastbound train 2.

Note the switch and control location behind the train. I haven't figured out the location.

Nice scenery shot so there may be some interest outside of railfans.   I could guess it could be scanned  for a nice wall photo.

Bob

Possibly Leanchoil? Or was there a siding between Leanchoil and Ottertail in the era which has since been removed?

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Darren Boes
Lethbridge, AB
Southern Alberta Railfan

I think Leanchoil also, from the Trans-Canada highway bridge. The siding was lengthened in the mid-1970's

algoma11 Wrote:
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> I sell slides on EBAY and frankly have no idea
> what motivates purchasers sometime. Slides I
> thought were ORO ( old, rare, obscure ) sold for
> base price, others that I listed as afterthoughts
> sold for $70-80 each.
> Some goes for subject matter, certain fallen flags
> are hot commodities, others won't sell for love or
> money regardless the quality and location of the
> slide. !!!!!

Exactly right! I also sell slides on eBay and ones I thought would be a good seller either don't get any bids or at best one. Other slides that are junk can go for 40-50$. One example of a Fallen Flag that does not sell are perfect shots of Penn Central F units - I listed them several times and never got a bid, yet cloudy day underexposed slides can go for 25$ or more! Go figure....

Ted