Jill said:
TJ when you get the RR web site up, please let me know. My dad just retired from the BNSF, he worked for Santa Fe all of his life, my oldest son is a train nut and has quite a collection we would be interested in seeing the site. Thanks, Jill
Jill... My buddy just got the site up & running & he has already sold 2 keys!! It's in the infant stages & hopefully it will get tweaked as time goes on. I've been offering suggestions, we've made some changes & I think it's off to a good start. He's got at least 30 new Railroad items that will be added to site within the next week & several people are planning to list items after they get back from the Gaithersburg Show.
BTW, my buddy is also a huge railroad nut. Over the last 15-20 years, he's collected pretty much anything that was rare & was railroad related... Locks, keys, Lanterns, China, Passes, Wax Sealers, Stock Certificates, etc.(lots more items). He donated somewhere around $100,000 - $150,000 worth of items to local museums about 10 years ago, so he's a pretty hard core collector. He's even got an antique scales that came from a local RR depot & some other real big items. My friend & another collector where even going to buy actual railroad cars at one time!!
Although he likes everything railroad related, hiis true love is collecting extra rare locks & extra rare keys. He used to regularly buy & sell on Ebay. However, because people where selling modern keys (that Railroads still use today!!) on Ebay, Homeland Security stepped in, made Ebay start policing their site. Well, rather than just stop selling the modern Railroad keys, Ebay decided that it was easier to stop selling all Railroad keys. Well, my buddy was upset & so were many others. After several months, nobody had filled the void, so my buddy decided to step up to the plate & offer a site for buying & selling railroad locks & keys & also any other railroad items (like laterns, wax sealers, china, etc.). Considering that he just came up with this idea about 2 weeks ago, I think it is going VERY WELL. He's already had 100's of collectors tell him that it was about time somebody did something, so that's encouraging.
Right now he has 2 MKT RY (Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway) tapper barreled keys that he's selling for ONLY $50!! Those are worth more than that, but he's offering those 2 keys, plus some other really good deals to help get the website going. Also, be sure to check back often because he will be adding new items all the time.
On the front page, he's got a pic of his Denver Rio Grande key #21
Here is a link to his web site..
http://www.railroadkeys.com/
