Fame = big money for your locos

[conrailmike]

I can't believe what someone paid for one of Eric Brooman's Proto 2000 units from his Utah Belt RR.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... MEWAX%3AIT

[trnwatcher]

As PT Barnum said....."there's a sucker born every minute"! Nice looking unit but 1200 clams? Really?

[Y@]

Always loved Eric's layout and the obvious work he put into it, but I don't think I would ever pay that much for one of his engines.

[AveryRdhouse]

I've always been a fan of the Utah Belt, but that is a little out of hand.

[railohio]

Newsflash, folks, if you're really, really good at what you do and have name recognition within a community your work will command top dollar. Undoubtedly, David Plowden can sell any of his photos for more than what we can sell any of ours. Why? Because he's David-freakin'-Plowden, that's why.

[sd70accsxt700]

Well I am really really good at what I do, and am really really well known, what is the problem then?

[Buster Manning]

uh,...... what is it you do ttam??

[conrailmike]

uh,...... what is it you do ttam??

HE LOVES MEN.

[TrainWatcher]

uh,...... what is it you do ttam??

HE LOVES MEN.

Big Hairy Men at that

[AARR]

Always loved Eric's layout and the obvious work he put into it, but I don't think I would ever pay that much for one of his engines.

I 2nd this! My whole engine roster of 8 units costs less than that one SD50

[conrailmike]

Always loved Eric's layout and the obvious work he put into it, but I don't think I would ever pay that much for one of his engines.

I 2nd this! My whole engine roster of 8 units costs less than that one SD50

Yeah, he does a great looking layout but there's NO way I'd pay that much

[Y@]

Did Eric have to dismantle that layout? I can't seem to remember if it still exists or not. Being that he's selling engines, I'm thinking the layout is no more.

[GrandTrunkFan]

Did Eric have to dismantle that layout? I can't seem to remember if it still exists or not. Being that he's selling engines, I'm thinking the layout is no more.

I dont think he did. I remember reading in an article in Model Railroader he changes his layout with the times. Says in the item description that hes going to ACs. I also remember a specific article where the SD9s were going bye bye due to AC4400s.

[sd70accsxt700]

He moved and rebuilt it about 6 to 10 years ago. But as Trunk Fan says, about every 5 to 10 years he purges his roster to keep up with the times. He usualy is about 5 to 10 years behind as it takes that long for the manafactures to put out new models. I rember the first article about his layout, he was just getting rid of the F units and most of his SD9's in favor of SD40-2's and GP40-2's. Then he got rid of the last of his helper SD9's and SD40-2's and GP40-2's for SD50/60's and GP60's. Now he is getting rid of his SD50's and SD60's for CW44AC's and SD70MAC's.

I almost bid on that SD50, but I fugured it would end up around 300.00 or so, guess I was wrong.

[AARR]

He usualy is about 5 to 10 years behind as it takes that long for the manafactures to put out new models.

He does a lot of kitbashing to get the models he wants if none are available

[Racer]

I'm suprised he's not doing ES44s or SD70ACes since those models are out now and some are already 5 years old (according to his timeline), how about a Utah Belt Genset?