These trains have plenty of association with the celebrity, and I can’t believe the owner didn’t call Rick out on it. Johnny Cash loved Lionel trains and collected them. He had a personal layout. He even made commercials for the company where he sat in the midst of their trains and sang songs about them. Given that, and the fact that it’s a beautifully restored 1932 standard gauge locomotive, this could easily have been sold for much more than even the $15,000 the owner was initially asking for.
@@joshhieronymus8107 Yup. I can’t tell if Rick didn’t know this stuff, or was gambling that the owner didn’t because that’s how you make money in sales.
Guys you have to remember its going to cost Rick $2000 just to frame it and its going to take up a lot of wall space the best he can do is $99 and hes taking all the risk here
i bet he didn't know what to say like, "i didn't expect this question" because he really was gonna buy escorts in vegas lol how come he didn't give his grand kids that train, not unless he going to wal mart n copping a cheap one lol
CASH was born the same year the train was made. That may have drawn him to it to begin with. CASH had a love of trains his whole life after growing up in Dyess Arkansas on a cotton farm. There were train tracks than ran close to his house on the farm. CASH'S first recording was "Hey Porter" about a train,"Folsom Prison Blues" is about a train and his last song he wrote and recorded was "The 309" about a train.
JohnLeePedimore I also highly doubt his family would have been able to afford to buy this for a ONE YEAR OLD. If it was johnnys he certainly wasn’t the first owner
C P PANDIAN dude try to put you on his shoes, is a fair price, would you give him $15000 even if you had the money? Rick is giving you quick money and he has to keep it and god knows when that thing is going to sell and it can get damaged later and/or lose value, i would try to do the same Rick did if i needed to, he is a great dealer, that is why he has a Pawn shop
rick owns a pawn shop, people showing up there trying to sell items obviously either don't want the item or need the money. pawn shops never pay asking price and people hard up on cash take considerably less than what its worth because they are usually in financial troubles.
Customer: I got Tutankhamon's tomb for sale. Rick: The tomb just doesn't have any association with him, best I can do is this free parking ticket and have Antwon escort you out of here.
Rick got this guy! I know a old guy that would pay 20k for it. I painted his custom home. He added a 30X30 room just for his train set. It wasn't a huge house. Maybe 4,500 Sqft? Dude loved trains. Lol
If it was Johnny Cash's guitar, he would still be offering $1200. If someone brought in the Holy Grail, he would still only offer 900 bucks because he doesn't have a frame to put it in
2:52 Old person to kids: "Kids! Planes were a big deal back in the days! Back then, we had to take trains and they would take 4 whole days to get to the other side of the country. Now you can do it in 7hrs!"
which makes it easy for someone with an antique train to fabricate a story saying johnny owned it...unless dude had a picture of johnny with that exact train the story holds no water.
"How much you lookin' to get for it?" "Twelve thousand." (Sigh) "That's a little steep. Best I can do is a handful of pumpkin seeds. I've got to make money off of this."
I Hear The Train A-Comin'; It's Rollin' 'Round The Bend, And I Ain't Seen The Sunshine Since I Don't Know When, I'm Stuck At Folsom Prison And Time Keeps Draggin' On. But That Train Keeps A-Rollin' On Down To San Antone
I don't begrudge Rick asking - and getting - $2,000 for the train. That's the name of the game when you own a pawn shop. But you'll notice this time he did not call in an expert to appraise it. I get the feeling the expert would have put a lot higher retail price on that train. For one thing, it operates on a two-track system - which is much rarer on the Lionel line as opposed to it more common three-track system.
That guy made out like a bandit. The likely hood of Johnny Cash receiving that as a kid are pretty slim. The fact that he was born in 1932. Maybe he received it second hand in the 40's ..idk...that particular engine was the rich kids toy in the depression of 30's
Gotta say, I’d find it a little irritating that he was only willing to pay the $2k. Rick actually says that the train is going on his mantle. So he paid this guy a pawn store price so that he personally didn’t have to pay retail for it. It would be one thing if he was going to sell it for $3K or $4K after it sat for a while and “took up ship space”.
The thing that concerns me the most is that there are a lot of trains in this world, even more that are newer than this, k. I have to get the train in working order, prices for a 1932 train are super expensive, it’s going to sit for a long time. I’ll go $800 and I don’t even know why I’m going that high
Rick has a point on this one. Does anyone know exactly how much stuff Johnny Cash owned? Point being- just because the man owned things doesn't mean they are worth a ton of money. Take the worth of the train and increase it SLIGHTLY and that is accurate. $15k for that train is ridiculous.
This couldn’t have had more association with Johnny Cash. Just thinking of all the railroad tunes that he wrote and covered, it’s no surprise that he was a train lover himself and had models of his own. He even did multiple Lionel train commercials and in one of them, he says “If it’s anyone that loves trains, it’s me Johnny Cash!”. Big lowball in my opinion. 😒
I’m confused.. Rick says Johnny Cash would be on the “cool” list twice but has no knowledge of his association with trains… guess he never got around to hearing Folsom Prison Blues
If it’s a Lionel owned by Jonny cash look at the Lionel standard gauge special edition it was 250,000 dollars if that ones a Jonny cash owned that thing has to be more
i if where you i would pass that train to my grand child.. that train your father own has more value than any of the things you can buy.. this is so sad
Nice locomotive. My 73 yr old grandpa that grew up in montana in the 50s-60s worked since he was a little boy pickin strawberries on the farm for a nickel an hour i think & he saved up to buy himself a train set the real metal heavy locomotive like this one & freight train set too. He still has it today & told me while back if id want it & i said yes. Years ago we had set it all up w real metal tracks & the passenger train set too they both have the special feature where you can put smoke in the chimney have it puffin smoke, their worth a fortune but not a fortune id ever give up for anything or anybody.
These trains have plenty of association with the celebrity, and I can’t believe the owner didn’t call Rick out on it. Johnny Cash loved Lionel trains and collected them. He had a personal layout. He even made commercials for the company where he sat in the midst of their trains and sang songs about them. Given that, and the fact that it’s a beautifully restored 1932 standard gauge locomotive, this could easily have been sold for much more than even the $15,000 the owner was initially asking for.
Glad you said it, so i didn't have to.
@@joshhieronymus8107 Yup. I can’t tell if Rick didn’t know this stuff, or was gambling that the owner didn’t because that’s how you make money in sales.
Guys you have to remember its going to cost Rick $2000 just to frame it and its going to take up a lot of wall space the best he can do is $99 and hes taking all the risk here
Wait a minute.....it's already in a frame ...
Rocky B you don’t understand. Rick has to put the frame within another frame. He’s really taking all the risk now..
99 dollars is a bit high , hes probably thinking more like 25 bucks
The best Ican is 50 cents take it or take it . hehege
Lmao
Guy: *sells a train*
Guy: *buys another train*
Guy: I like trains
my life in a nut shell lol
@@HaveAniceDay2450 thanks i guess lol
This dude sold Johnny cashs train just so he can buy his grandkids... a train?
Yeah. Like WTF????
Booze.
@@LloydWaldo Lol!!! He's talking about Night Train Express.
i bet he didn't know what to say like, "i didn't expect this question" because he really was gonna buy escorts in vegas lol how come he didn't give his grand kids that train, not unless he going to wal mart n copping a cheap one lol
🤦♂️😪
Where was his expert in Lionel Train sets from 1932 that were owned by Johnny Cash that were dropped off to be restored and never picked up?
CASH was born the same year the train was made. That may have drawn him to it to begin with. CASH had a love of trains his whole life after growing up in Dyess Arkansas on a cotton farm. There were train tracks than ran close to his house on the farm. CASH'S first recording was "Hey Porter" about a train,"Folsom Prison Blues" is about a train and his last song he wrote and recorded was "The 309" about a train.
JohnLeePedimore I also highly doubt his family would have been able to afford to buy this for a ONE YEAR OLD. If it was johnnys he certainly wasn’t the first owner
This is one of the holy grails of childhood toys owned by Johnny cash.
not only that but johnny cash loved trains as an adult as well, he rode the illinois central all the time and often talked about trains in his song
This is an insult to the choo choo community
Thats why they are chooches
choochwoot community
Exactly
Why?
The pez community is with you
I got a Q-Tip owned by Johnny Cash, I want 20K. "I'll give you a dollar". How about $1500? "$1.25". SOLD!
It's probably all scripted.
Plot twist: it ends up being Johnny Cash's stash box
Emptied by the repairman.
That was one bizarre 2 minutes 52 seconds.
What do you mean it doesn’t have the right association? This is JOHNNY CASH, trains were his whole image! He sang about trains, he posed with trains!
Jeremy Xu he did comerciales for that company
crazedmartinez yeah and that, completely forgot to mention that too
He may have sang songs about trains, but since he was a singer and a guitarist, the association would be guitars, not trains
@@scotthamp384 all of it's right there the dude loved trains.
@@glimpyrimpy6258 I did not know that
Johnny cash was iconic for the train, most of his beats in his songs were after trains
when the guy agreed for the 2grand then rick almost burst you know he low balled it down 😂😂
Right after he leaves Rick gets a call from another pawn shop saying wow you'll never guess what I bought! Johnny Cash's old train!
Classic dad move “now I’m gonna go buy a train for my kids” haha sure dad it’s for the kids
“You gotta think of it from my point of view, i gotta resell this so I can’t pay retail”
“This is going on my mantle”
Hahaha I got Rick's formula give the person only 1/10 for what they ask for
This is junk who cares if johnny cash owned it! It's worth $1k only at the most
$15,000 for a toy train? Sounds like " Sucker Train Blues " to me...
C P PANDIAN dude try to put you on his shoes, is a fair price, would you give him $15000 even if you had the money? Rick is giving you quick money and he has to keep it and god knows when that thing is going to sell and it can get damaged later and/or lose value, i would try to do the same Rick did if i needed to, he is a great dealer, that is why he has a Pawn shop
rick owns a pawn shop, people showing up there trying to sell items obviously either don't want the item or need the money. pawn shops never pay asking price and people hard up on cash take considerably less than what its worth because they are usually in financial troubles.
@shafta99 You have actually went to pawn shop and done business. I know cause I can relate.
Customer: I got Tutankhamon's tomb for sale.
Rick: The tomb just doesn't have any association with him, best I can do is this free parking ticket and have Antwon escort you out of here.
He’s going to buy his kids a train yet he just sells the coolest train he could possibly own.
Rick got this guy! I know a old guy that would pay 20k for it. I painted his custom home. He added a 30X30 room just for his train set. It wasn't a huge house. Maybe 4,500 Sqft? Dude loved trains. Lol
Rick: I can do 1,500
Custom: how about 8,000
I want to see an episode haggles with the guy who makes his frames.
Every time the camera is on the owner of the train he looks like he's thinking could you shut up and just give me some money.
If it was Johnny Cash's guitar, he would still be offering $1200. If someone brought in the Holy Grail, he would still only offer 900 bucks because he doesn't have a frame to put it in
renspecs I don’t know. The holy grail is one of the holy grails of holy grails.
Lol framing is so expensive according to rick he coudve had that done cheap being in his business
Loooolll
seanshaga1234 yeah and Rick would probably offer someone a hundred bucks for the original 10 Commandments tablets cuz a frame would cost 45 grand.
Hagerstown Maryland represent!
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"Let me call up a buddy. He's an expert in Johnny Cash Toys from 1932"
Why bring this to a pawn shop?
It’s like trying to get a fair price for a mint 1963 Corvette from a junk-yard.
I wish richard was back.... RIP richard...
The Old Man would be screaming from above asking why Rick even bought the thing in the first place.
0:22 that car just won’t start. Mr Brown famously laughed to hard at his own joke.
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"I'm gonna take this $2000 and buy my kids some Q-tips"
Props from Hagerstown, 2 years later!
True Johnny Cash fans won’t sell anything of his.
Rick trips and train gets impaled on his butt.
Johnny Cash says : It ain't seen the sunshine, since ......I don't know when."
"Top 10 coolest guys ever. He's on the list twice.' Huehehehehhehehehhehehehehhehehe
Plot twist: Johnny Cash's guitar pick used at his Folsom Prison show is inside that train
Customer: 'I have original Holy Grail'. Rick: 'I'll give you like 100 bucks for it.'
For those of you who don’t remember Lionel and Johnny cash had a contract together hence all the Johnny cash Lionel train commercials
"Well I don't know much about this, do you mind if I call over a friend to take a look at these things?"
"No"
*Deal*
2:52 Old person to kids: "Kids! Planes were a big deal back in the days! Back then, we had to take trains and they would take 4 whole days to get to the other side of the country. Now you can do it in 7hrs!"
He also loved toy trains
He went from 15,000 down to 2,000 in an instant don’t let this man negotiate anything important ever
This man went from $15,000 to $2,000
Because he prolly was seeing if he could get more. Always start high when you selling something. If came in and asked 2grand he would of got 800
2:38 YOU ALREADY HAD ONE YOU 10-PLY DIALTONE
Got Hess trains from way back good condition
How does it not have tge correct tie to the celebrity? Johnny cash wrote songs about trains all the time
which makes it easy for someone with an antique train to fabricate a story saying johnny owned it...unless dude had a picture of johnny with that exact train the story holds no water.
Good call, that train would look cool on a mantle
I Love Johnny Cash
this guy is like George Costanza, just driving around in jon voight's car
I'm a train hoppin greaser , that loves johnny cash
That was probably the insperation for long black train
I would’ve kept it, 100%
Rip old man
"How much you lookin' to get for it?" "Twelve thousand." (Sigh) "That's a little steep. Best I can do is a handful of pumpkin seeds. I've got to make money off of this."
"He also owned Q-Tips"
Doesn't work that way you have to be able to prove headed blond Johnny Cash or anyone else a letter of authenticity
Cant believe he compared a toy train from the 30s that johney cash owned to a q tip
I Hear The Train A-Comin'; It's Rollin' 'Round The Bend,
And I Ain't Seen The Sunshine Since I Don't Know When,
I'm Stuck At Folsom Prison And Time Keeps Draggin' On.
But That Train Keeps A-Rollin'
On Down To San Antone
That is not worth 2000. More like 200
Actually I have a Lionel Pocket Price Guide from bout 2018 or 2019 and price range is from $385 to $475.
385 for good, 475 for excellent condition.
The train itself is without Johnny Cash behind it is probably worth that or more
Did I hear Hagerstown MD? My home town
Ryan Smith same here.
Same! Wonder witch store it was at ?
Fun facts. When johnny passed, the bee gees bought his house with all his belongings and burned it to the ground.
I don't begrudge Rick asking - and getting - $2,000 for the train. That's the name of the game when you own a pawn shop. But you'll notice this time he did not call in an expert to appraise it. I get the feeling the expert would have put a lot higher retail price on that train. For one thing, it operates on a two-track system - which is much rarer on the Lionel line as opposed to it more common three-track system.
Cash did not do the adds for Lionel Corp, Lionel sold the train division and brand to General Mills in 1970
This guy literally sold something that his grandpa left him before he passed away
plaque says owned by Johnny Cash..Rick asked if this train was owned by Johnny Cash...way to investigate 🤣🤣
That guy made out like a bandit. The likely hood of Johnny Cash receiving that as a kid are pretty slim. The fact that he was born in 1932. Maybe he received it second hand in the 40's ..idk...that particular engine was the rich kids toy in the depression of 30's
Gotta say, I’d find it a little irritating that he was only willing to pay the $2k. Rick actually says that the train is going on his mantle. So he paid this guy a pawn store price so that he personally didn’t have to pay retail for it. It would be one thing if he was going to sell it for $3K or $4K after it sat for a while and “took up ship space”.
It sold at auction two days ago for 153k.
Sell a vintage Lionel train to buy a new train? And with this history you sell it for that price?
Came down from 8k to 2k real fast!
I have an ancient l&n railroad spike from the 1920s
Why did he sell it
The thing that concerns me the most is that there are a lot of trains in this world, even more that are newer than this, k. I have to get the train in working order, prices for a 1932 train are super expensive, it’s going to sit for a long time. I’ll go $800 and I don’t even know why I’m going that high
Rick has a point on this one. Does anyone know exactly how much stuff Johnny Cash owned? Point being- just because the man owned things doesn't mean they are worth a ton of money. Take the worth of the train and increase it SLIGHTLY and that is accurate. $15k for that train is ridiculous.
I thought it was a good deal until I saw that piece of tape on the back.
He can buy his kids a couple really good trains with 2,000 dollars
Guy: 15.000
RICK: free
RIP old man
he is still alive
Reminder to self. Call in a expert
Frank Sinatra was also a model railroader.
... okay he also owns a q-tip.
Smug.
I agree with Rick's assessment of Johnny....too bad Rick doesn't have some of that man's character.
I know a guy that would've paid up to 10K for that train in an auction.
dude took 2 Gs cuz he knew that handwritten letter about johnny cash owning it was bullsh*t
I would give them $10 remember you're taking all the risk here
This couldn’t have had more association with Johnny Cash. Just thinking of all the railroad tunes that he wrote and covered, it’s no surprise that he was a train lover himself and had models of his own. He even did multiple Lionel train commercials and in one of them, he says “If it’s anyone that loves trains, it’s me Johnny Cash!”. Big lowball in my opinion. 😒
So he sold a train to buy a train.
You know what happens next right? Yup you guessed it. He sells that train and buys another train.
I got Jon Voight's car....
15k .... seems high I'm saying 1500..... ok 8k ???? he offers 1500 and u think 8 🤣 love the effort
I’m confused.. Rick says Johnny Cash would be on the “cool” list twice but has no knowledge of his association with trains… guess he never got around to hearing Folsom Prison Blues
*MR.BROWN!*
where did Mr. Browns famous outro go??
Take this train to a train auction.
This isn’t a reputable estimate.
Johnny Cash was born in 1932
His dad hated him he didnt want to give him money jaja
2000 sounds like alot for some crummy train
Unless the train itself in worth that much and the Cash story is gonna help sell it
If it’s a Lionel owned by Jonny cash look at the Lionel standard gauge special edition it was 250,000 dollars if that ones a Jonny cash owned that thing has to be more
i if where you i would pass that train to my grand child.. that train your father own has more value than any of the things you can buy.. this is so sad
Nice locomotive. My 73 yr old grandpa that grew up in montana in the 50s-60s worked since he was a little boy pickin strawberries on the farm for a nickel an hour i think & he saved up to buy himself a train set the real metal heavy locomotive like this one & freight train set too. He still has it today & told me while back if id want it & i said yes. Years ago we had set it all up w real metal tracks & the passenger train set too they both have the special feature where you can put smoke in the chimney have it puffin smoke, their worth a fortune but not a fortune id ever give up for anything or anybody.