I… struck… GOLD!!!!

This was a very VERY lucky eBay find. If I didn’t stay home from work the day I bought it, it would’ve been gone and I wouldn’t have known it was on there.

So for my HO layout I’m trying to work on, I’ve always wanted a Knapford Station for the layout. But everywhere I looked, it was always the same. “Out of stock” “discontinued” “no more of this item” Eventually, I gave up.

I decided to take a day off work last week and began scrolling through the ebay hobby shops that had Thomas ho stuff when I came across a listing for Knapford Station for $150! I think around 40 people were watching this item, but I jumped on it as fast as I could. Bought it. Celebrated. Sent a message to the seller. And here I am almost a week later with it in my possession. And if you don’t agree on what I paid for it, everywhere you looked online didn’t have it and you couldn’t find it anywhere online. Also, some of these places had it priced at almost or above $200. So I think I got a great deal on this.

The condition of it is superb. A tiny scratch in a spot or two in the glass canopies, but the only way you’d see them is if you were really scrutinizing it. One of the supports that hold up the canopy was bent a little, but ones everything was snapped together, it was like it wasn’t even there. The ONLY think I’ll have to really put work into is that one of the station numbers pegs broke, but the peg itself is still in one of the supports, so a little glue will do just fine to fix it.

Overall, I think I made a wonderful purchase and luck was on my side that day.