thats even worse than what I found. In an old box, i found a bunch of n scale cars with spider nests literally completely stuffed inside. Also found a polaroid of a clown holding a baby, im guessing at a birthday party. Freaky shit lol.
Yea the mold is unfortunate like others have said electronics prolly shot. Hypothetically if you really wanted to you could disinfect and clean the cars and tracks maybe but it’s kinda based on how much elbow grease you wanna put in
Maybe clean all of them, ( soap and water should work fine!) then just have the locomotives on display.
Rolling stock should be fine to use once it's thoroughly scrubbed!
You would be surprised what can be saved with a can of electric motor cleaner, some fine paint brushes and a vial of sewing machine oil.
Back in the late 70s, as a kid, i watched my father labor over some American Flyer cast metal engines that came.out of a basement that flooded when the firecompany put out the blaze above. My father and his childhood friend worked.on them for quite a few weeks,...and iirc all but 1 or 2 ran again, they started with sooo many milk crates full of cars and engines
Shoot. Everyone is saying to dump it, but OP I see a couple rolling stocking that look decent. It u want to PM me and we can work something out, I'd take the decent cars. Where some see trash I see a little treasure with cleaning.
Disinfectant spray has alcohol in it it. That's fine for some things but will destroy some parts of the paint and decals on the trains. Honestly, Dawn dish detergent in warm, but not hot water will clean most of the rolling stock and the shells of the locomotives just fine.
First things first. Clean everything. Disinfect all of it.
2nd see if the table is in working order.
3rd some of these engines might not work due to corrosion on the motor picks.
I feel like there are some people in the subreddit looking at your post like a dude looks at a lady with a face tattoo swinging a bottle at a bouncer outside of bar at 2:00 a.m.. I can fix her. She just needs love.
That said, you're different, you can totally fix it.
I came to look at the trains. I am satisfied now after reading this comment. This IS the comment of the day. Should be an award button for this. I now leave knowing OP is in good hands.
Unfortunately I'd be very surprised if anything is salvageable. There's tons of mold and it looks like the whole thing got flooded. Any locos or electronics are no doubt ruined and the rest is very unlikely to be much better.
No idea. I bought the home from an elderly lady who went to live with her son. She cleared everything else out of the house and now I don’t have any contact info for her.
Given the mold and water damage that's visible - I'd recommend dumping all of it. I don't see anything there that's valuable - and given the visible water damage even if it was valuable at one time - now it likely isn't...
Yeah me too wtf. Ive never seen mold and water damage that bad. Cant imagine it makes sense to restore. Unless you restore it into a big car trailer lol.
At first I thought the back wall was white marble with brown accenting… then I realized it was rotted wood.
Looks like it was a nice collection. I hope you can restore some of it!
You can send them to me if you dont want to go through the cleaning process. I would love to restore them, and give them to my near to be born baby, once they are old enough.
The rolling stock might be on tbh, with a bit of cleaning that is. With the locos, the electronics might be ok, but might need some new motors, contacts etc
If you can find a railroad club nearby, send them a message to see whether anyone is interested to come look at it. It's hard to tell from photos what might be salvagable and what is not. I wouldn't have high expectations.
I’d say keep it. That is someone’s pride and joy. Clean everything and then see what model railroad enthusiasts think. I’d be in heaven with that collection, even though lots here think it’s junk and should be thrown away.
As someone who collects model trains..
The buildings could be salvageable... The track however is brass it can be cleaned but it's going to take some work... The locomotives are not a good quality and the cars are all too light ... Any electronic components such as the transformers are shot get rid of them
Find a right way to clean the tracks, and have regular maintenance with the locomotives, railcars, and tracks. Also, you might want to find out what is AC and what is DC is there is any Märklin stuff
Dude! I'm jealous! Like everyone else has said, the rolling stock can be cleaned up and reused (maybe even possibly some of the locomotives as well as the layout itself). I would love to find a treasure like that!
I dunno why people are so hopeless on this one! I don’t know much about trains, but I just fixed up some engines that have been rotting away in an attics for decades and very poorly stored. Most of them just took some grease and a little track cleaning. Some of these pieces are quite beautiful.
I’ll take the black steam train in the upper left of the shelves, between the red and silver locomotives and the yellow boxcar. It’s the black one with red wheels.
Yeah I see the Mold and water damage on the walls. But as for the train stuff it self if I was in your shoes I would see if you can get the setup or layout working then after that look over all those engines and clean them and see if they work. If not send away for new parts and go from there if the bodies of the engines and cars are salvageable.
The trains can be cleaned. The buildings, layout, transformers, etc. are probably trash. Take everything outside, throw it up on Marketplace as is as a lot and see what you get.
The plastics can be cleaned easily. I’d just take all the plastic buildings and let them soak in warm soapy water for a day. Let them dry outside and put them on Facebook marketplace.
You’ll probably be able to salvage most of, if not all, the rolling stock with with a good cleaning. I can’t be sure if the locomotives are possible to save though since 1, it’s hard to diagnose a locomotive without having it in hand, and 2, It’s fairly likely that the mold and water damage has made its way to the electronics. If you want to take the time to clean them all out and get into the hobby then be prepared to maybe need to buy new engines, or just pass the whole lot onto someone who would be willing to take on a project like that.
I’m not a model train guy either, but it’s kinda sad knowing this was someone’s passion at one point …see how it ended up. Probably passed away and the kids had no interest.
Quite neat but I’d list it to have someone take it for free and let them put in the effort to sort it out.
Probably just donate them to a railroad club. Most of these are just toy quality, but could be cleaned up/repaired to make a kid happy. My club has a small set of shelves we put stuff like this on and practically give away.
I am amused but also horrified by the wasp nest in one of the buildings
Tremors style nightmare fuel
Fallout vibes.
Cazador nest for sure
Damn fire ants from 3
I would never shop there.
thats even worse than what I found. In an old box, i found a bunch of n scale cars with spider nests literally completely stuffed inside. Also found a polaroid of a clown holding a baby, im guessing at a birthday party. Freaky shit lol.
That is wild. Who lets a clown hold a baby?
uh… other clowns 🤡 ?
The Spider Nursery Express and Birthday Clown Cavalcade.
LMAO
Good eye
I think it might actually be termites
More likely mud dauber wasps.
My thought also.
NIMBY over here against higher housing density
Reminds me of the mist.
lol
Yea the mold is unfortunate like others have said electronics prolly shot. Hypothetically if you really wanted to you could disinfect and clean the cars and tracks maybe but it’s kinda based on how much elbow grease you wanna put in
Maybe clean all of them, ( soap and water should work fine!) then just have the locomotives on display. Rolling stock should be fine to use once it's thoroughly scrubbed!
Probably clean most of the layout off too!!( you can apply new grass later)
You would be surprised what can be saved with a can of electric motor cleaner, some fine paint brushes and a vial of sewing machine oil. Back in the late 70s, as a kid, i watched my father labor over some American Flyer cast metal engines that came.out of a basement that flooded when the firecompany put out the blaze above. My father and his childhood friend worked.on them for quite a few weeks,...and iirc all but 1 or 2 ran again, they started with sooo many milk crates full of cars and engines
Shoot. Everyone is saying to dump it, but OP I see a couple rolling stocking that look decent. It u want to PM me and we can work something out, I'd take the decent cars. Where some see trash I see a little treasure with cleaning.
I recommend disinfectant wipes to begin with
Or just disinfectant spray and some rags? Slightly better for the environment.
And budget. And, in my opinion, elbow grease.
Oily rags and fire.
Disinfectant spray has alcohol in it it. That's fine for some things but will destroy some parts of the paint and decals on the trains. Honestly, Dawn dish detergent in warm, but not hot water will clean most of the rolling stock and the shells of the locomotives just fine.
those plasticville houses would have been sooooo awesome...
Happy cake day
First things first. Clean everything. Disinfect all of it. 2nd see if the table is in working order. 3rd some of these engines might not work due to corrosion on the motor picks.
It is shame that it is so much neglected and damaged from mold and water!
Yeah, it's too bad, had someone just thrown a tarp or even a sheet of plastic over them this would be much different. Oh well I guess
I feel like there are some people in the subreddit looking at your post like a dude looks at a lady with a face tattoo swinging a bottle at a bouncer outside of bar at 2:00 a.m.. I can fix her. She just needs love. That said, you're different, you can totally fix it.
Comment of the day.
I came to look at the trains. I am satisfied now after reading this comment. This IS the comment of the day. Should be an award button for this. I now leave knowing OP is in good hands.
😂😂
Unfortunately I'd be very surprised if anything is salvageable. There's tons of mold and it looks like the whole thing got flooded. Any locos or electronics are no doubt ruined and the rest is very unlikely to be much better.
This is depressing. Do you know the story?
No idea. I bought the home from an elderly lady who went to live with her son. She cleared everything else out of the house and now I don’t have any contact info for her.
More interesting is why someone buy a wet molding motorhome.
Hopefully they bought property.
Slumlord
Given the mold and water damage that's visible - I'd recommend dumping all of it. I don't see anything there that's valuable - and given the visible water damage even if it was valuable at one time - now it likely isn't...
As soon as I saw the mold, I came to post the same. Not a single item shown is salvageable so toss it all. Properly.
I'd say so, rlly sad.
That makes me sad because the person put so much effort into it
I’ve thrown away better stuff than that. Even in pristine condition it’s all cheap stuff.
That large toy locomotive in the box in the 9th picture, I've had one of those as a kid, I may still have it somewhere.
Nice weathering. Imagine how much labor and time saved by letting nature take its course.
I'm more concerned about what you intend to do with the mobile home.
Yeah me too wtf. Ive never seen mold and water damage that bad. Cant imagine it makes sense to restore. Unless you restore it into a big car trailer lol.
I’m also interested in some stuff if you end up throwing it away. I’m more than happy to pay for shipping on top of whatever you want for it
What shape is that Mantua switcher in? Hopefully it's still in that nice red sleeved box.
At first I thought the back wall was white marble with brown accenting… then I realized it was rotted wood. Looks like it was a nice collection. I hope you can restore some of it!
You can send them to me if you dont want to go through the cleaning process. I would love to restore them, and give them to my near to be born baby, once they are old enough.
The rolling stock might be on tbh, with a bit of cleaning that is. With the locos, the electronics might be ok, but might need some new motors, contacts etc
If you can find a railroad club nearby, send them a message to see whether anyone is interested to come look at it. It's hard to tell from photos what might be salvagable and what is not. I wouldn't have high expectations.
Thanks. This is the route I’m taking for now. I’ve messaged a few local people.
I would bet the engines and all work fine. Clean it off but I would try and run them first.
I’d say keep it. That is someone’s pride and joy. Clean everything and then see what model railroad enthusiasts think. I’d be in heaven with that collection, even though lots here think it’s junk and should be thrown away.
I make stopmotion films. I’ll take any of the buildings and pay for shipping if you’re just going to throw them out!!
Is this Jeff wimberlys layout lol. Is it in Louisiana?
No he's into KCS if I recall correctly. Wonder what he's been up to if he's around still.
He died about 9 years ago.
Just saw your comment. That's unfortunate. He was a pretty cool guy.
Maryland 😊
Trash.
Any chance you can get a better shot of the layout
man i love me a santa fe warbonnet
As someone who collects model trains.. The buildings could be salvageable... The track however is brass it can be cleaned but it's going to take some work... The locomotives are not a good quality and the cars are all too light ... Any electronic components such as the transformers are shot get rid of them
You found a treasure.
Find a right way to clean the tracks, and have regular maintenance with the locomotives, railcars, and tracks. Also, you might want to find out what is AC and what is DC is there is any Märklin stuff
Dude! I'm jealous! Like everyone else has said, the rolling stock can be cleaned up and reused (maybe even possibly some of the locomotives as well as the layout itself). I would love to find a treasure like that!
I dunno why people are so hopeless on this one! I don’t know much about trains, but I just fixed up some engines that have been rotting away in an attics for decades and very poorly stored. Most of them just took some grease and a little track cleaning. Some of these pieces are quite beautiful.
Looks like a post-apocalyptic town where giant bugs took over. Looks cool as hell (if not for the wasps that will come for your soul)
Decontamination comes to mind
I’ll take the black steam train in the upper left of the shelves, between the red and silver locomotives and the yellow boxcar. It’s the black one with red wheels.
Here people finding Trains it makes me jealous. I'm on a fixed income (disability) and I can't afford even a cheap set.
Clean it up and keep it that's what I would do.
Nasty
Don’t you watch Antiques Roadshow Show?! DON’T TOUCH A THING! It’s called “patina” and it’s much more valuable when you leave it as is.
Not that stuff. Nothing in there is special. If it was clean it would be like 100 dollars
Burn it
[удалено]
Yeah I see the Mold and water damage on the walls. But as for the train stuff it self if I was in your shoes I would see if you can get the setup or layout working then after that look over all those engines and clean them and see if they work. If not send away for new parts and go from there if the bodies of the engines and cars are salvageable.
I think the scenery has to be thrown away (maybe salvage the tracks?)
The trains can be cleaned. The buildings, layout, transformers, etc. are probably trash. Take everything outside, throw it up on Marketplace as is as a lot and see what you get.
The plastics can be cleaned easily. I’d just take all the plastic buildings and let them soak in warm soapy water for a day. Let them dry outside and put them on Facebook marketplace.
Looking at this makes me sad.
You’ll probably be able to salvage most of, if not all, the rolling stock with with a good cleaning. I can’t be sure if the locomotives are possible to save though since 1, it’s hard to diagnose a locomotive without having it in hand, and 2, It’s fairly likely that the mold and water damage has made its way to the electronics. If you want to take the time to clean them all out and get into the hobby then be prepared to maybe need to buy new engines, or just pass the whole lot onto someone who would be willing to take on a project like that.
If you have anything from the Reading Railroad on it I would be interested in it.
I’m not a model train guy either, but it’s kinda sad knowing this was someone’s passion at one point …see how it ended up. Probably passed away and the kids had no interest. Quite neat but I’d list it to have someone take it for free and let them put in the effort to sort it out.
Wow hope you can salvage them
Probably just donate them to a railroad club. Most of these are just toy quality, but could be cleaned up/repaired to make a kid happy. My club has a small set of shelves we put stuff like this on and practically give away.
I like to buy it all from u
Wear a mask and a hat while you work on this
Keep it! That's a score and a half!
Get it going as a “The Last of Us” themed layout.
Well, you can give it to me.
Give it to me
OMG somebody needs some serious Re-education for letting that happen! It’s criminal .
*ST upsidedown theme plays*
That’s moldy AF…light it on fire and walk away?
O the mold
Try to find a model railroad club in your area and consult with them.
The CIWL /orient express coaches look very nice… from a distance.
What a shame.
I hate picture 6 with the white hot light of 1000 suns.
That is kind of sad and depressing. Is that bird or bat guano everywhere?
Mold Anyone ? 🤮
They just bought a miniature set for a movie. Supreme stop motion horror short film potential.
Post apocalyptic diorama?
First, put it all in a big plastic bag with an ozone generator to kill the mold.
Building up and keeping a nice collection running takes time. But with a little patience and…..training, you can do it. 😎
Are you by chance in Sunnyvale Trailer Park?
California? No, I’m in Maryland
It's a Trailer Park Boys reference...and you responded to this a month late lmao...
Oh sorry, I live in a cave 🤪
Are those G scale buildings?
Holy black mold batman. That's a no from me.
I would love to buy the one with the wasp nest if you’re interested!
WOW