Whats the rarest Micro-Trains car?
No one actually knows the answer to this question as far as regular release cars are concerned. That’s because first, the production runs of all MTL regular run cars are kept secret, or simply unknown in the case of early productions. Second, although not as marked as with say, silver coins, no one knows how many of the production are actually left in collectible or at least runnable condtion. There are several nominees, though: What I consider to be the rarest of the regular release cars is the 47180 “Oregon and Nationwide” wood refrigerator car. It is not done for a prototype railroad at all, but a modeller’s own line, and it’s widely been reported (but never actually confirmed) that there were only several hundred pieces made. It regularly goes for $500-plus on the collector’s circuit and quite a bit less as a runner but still a non-trivial amount of money. Then there’s the 20370 West India Fruit box car in brown and white– not to be confused with the other WIF box car releases fro
