Very Rare!

Very Rare, prefer mine well done, thank you. :eek:
 
If you paid that price Gord, I think you would have been, extremely well done Burned even!.
 
If it goes at that price, maybe Pola should start a new production run!
 
There is another one 'on' which 'the dog trod on'.. Starting price £50.00

Now, having one on 'The Harz' layout.. They are VERY nice.

Brings a smile to adults, and kids alike, when you ask them to 'help', and get them to operate the barriers.. :):):clap::clap::clap:


To be fair, a desirable object, and out of production. So I suppose 'you pays your money..'
 
I think i'll pass on that one, could buy a new loco for that money.
 
I've had two sets of those. One was an American outline , the other the European model. The American crossing gates were in my garden for a few years. After the first year, it needed attention once in awhile each season. I was about to install the Euro model when the American version finally went caput ! But in my new mindset, I opted no to do so and sold it. Oh, my new mindset, which came upon me about two years ago, is less is more.
 
Madman said:
I've had two sets of those. One was an American outline , the other the European model. The American crossing gates were in my garden for a few years. After the first year, it needed attention once in awhile each season. I was about to install the Euro model when the American version finally went caput ! But in my new mindset, I opted no to do so and sold it. Oh, my new mindset, which came upon me about two years ago, is less is more.
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May I be so bold as to ask what the cost of a Euro crossing was when you acquired it? I bought a Bachmann one (with the tin plate track) but it still in the box waiting for me to convert to brass rail. £24! And no electrical parts - just mechanical.
 
May I ask another question? Is the closing of the barriers more realistic than with the LGB version where the barriers come down more or less once the loco is on the crossing?
 
playmofire said:
May I ask another question? Is the closing of the barriers more realistic than with the LGB version where the barriers come down more or less once the loco is on the crossing?
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If that's the Bachmann one, it comes down as the train crosses. If it was for Dan - sorry!
 
We have the Pola one connected to a function decoder, so it has an address, and we can raise / lower the barriers at will..
This means we can have 'fun' with visiting drivers, who may not notice the barriers are up!
 
Madman said:
...Oh, my new mindset, which came upon me about two years ago, is less is more.
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Bit of a tangent, but I had a similar epiphany, when I realised the advantage of outdoor model railways is the capability to have trains meander through the countryside / mountainside / whatever in natural light and real vegetation. So out went all the signals, signal boxes and other track-side embellishments. All I have now is the track and switch motors for a passing loop and siding. And I might even replace those with spring loaded points. All the fancy stuff is on the small indoor layout where working level crossing barriers would be fun and maintenance much less of an issue.
 
trammayo said:
May I be so bold as to ask what the cost of a Euro crossing was when you acquired it? I bought a Bachmann one (with the tin plate track) but it still in the box waiting for me to convert to brass rail. £24! And no electrical parts - just mechanical.
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It's been awhile but if memory serves me I paid somewhere in the vicinity of $100.00 from an Ebay seller.
 
Here is the American version after I had modified it. You'll notice that the gates are somewhat shorter. The shortening was due to an accident, not of my making.


And here they are a few years before, in better shape.

 
idlemarvel said:
Bit of a tangent, but I had a similar epiphany, when I realised the advantage of outdoor model railways is the capability to have trains meander through the countryside / mountainside / whatever in natural light and real vegetation. So out went all the signals, signal boxes and other track-side embellishments. All I have now is the track and switch motors for a passing loop and siding. And I might even replace those with spring loaded points. All the fancy stuff is on the small indoor layout where working level crossing barriers would be fun and maintenance much less of an issue.
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You may have noticed that my two films of the grade crossing show different structures. All now gone in favor of simplicity and ease of maintenance of the railway. As you have done, I pulled out all of the signals and underground wiring, with the exception of the garden lighting which is also powering the building lights. I wonder where I got the time and energy to do what I did at the time. Between running track power, which is also history, maintaining electrical and mechanical accessories, modeling, gardening, etc.
 
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