Hey, I scored a Santa Fe 10025 at a garage sale and gave it a gentle bath. When rebuilding I noticed this weird pattern on the shiny horizontal stripe bricks. No way this could be human damage with the pattern almost identical on each brick. No way I causes this, did I???

Your set appears to have Syphilis. I do not speak out of personal experience.

My guess is the mold used to produce the piece created the pattern, because it is identical. I`d put money on that bet, honestly makes it look cool IMHO. 

 

 

Your set appears to have Syphilis. I do not speak out of personal experience.

You know what they saying about practicing safe, oh forget it..... 

Is this going to affect resell value do you think?

Is this going to affect resell value do you think?

Doubtful, unless someone is extremely picky (unfortunately those people are out there). It`s a permanent part of the plastic left by the mold, you see this sort of thing on everything that is injected/cast/etc. Metal, plastic, doesn`t matter, unless the factory is very careful, it`s going to happen, even then it will still occur. I wouldn`t worry about it at all, the bricks definitely don`t look damaged at all, and like I said, nothing can be down about this other than to re-melt the pieces and try again, though that`s probably not going to help unless a different mold is used haha. 

My guess is the mold used to produce the piece created the pattern, because it is identical. I`d put money on that bet, honestly makes it look cool IMHO. 

 

 

You know what they saying about practicing safe, oh forget it..... 

Hilarious, lol. :)

That's how they all look. They were a metallic color and the "metalflake" must settle in the plastic. Those are specicfic bricks for the santa fe cars and 3 other sets produced from 2002 thru 2005. The color is called pearl light gray. Nice score btw.

Thanks! The 10020 Super Chief was in the lot as well so really made out well. That one is just missing a few pieces I have already found, but the passenger car has me scouring the globe for several replacement pieces for the under belly of the car.

Apologies for hi-jacking this thread, but it seemed the most appropriate, and I didn't want to start a new thread.

 

This is up for auction near me. It's already at $50, I'm hoping some of you train connoisseurs might be able to help. I can't find any other train that has the dark green bricks (aside from a sante fe model). Is this the Emerald? The front looks different, it looks like it has reddish brown windows instead of black, and it looks to have a 4-digit number on the wheels and the body. I know the pictures are crappy.

 

http://images.shopgoodwill.com/117/1-22-2015/72155392211583720.JPG

 

http://images.shopgoodwill.com/117/1-22-2015/86083612211583820.JPG

 

The lot is like 7lbs, so there's some other crap in there too.

 

Thanks for looking dudes!

 

EDIT: Ah... I found it. It's this: 79111 Lone Ranger Constitution. 

 

Sorry, I cannot delete this. If a mod wants to delete it, go for it.

Edited January 25, 201511 yr by mightycaseyatbat

... he got it already

Edited January 25, 201511 yr by CC-Marley