Vintage train race set?

[Anonymous]

I have a question for anyone who may recognize the train set that I'm about to describe. If you recognize this and can tell me anything more about it, I would appreciate it.

This train set is at least 30 years old, and probably much older. It came in two large black trunk-style boxes. The more blocky box (the master control) contained various buttons, switches, lights and counters. The other, wider, longer, flatter, box folded out and contained the train set (probably N-guage). The two boxes were connected together with a thick electrical cable. There were actually two sets of tracks that were mirror images of each other attached to the insides of the box. The tracks had two parts - one windy and another straight. At opposite edges of the box, you would attach metal control panels which had a forward/stop/reverse knob as well as a few other buttons.

Two players are obviously situated on opposite sides. Someone would press a start button on the control pannel in the master control box, a red light would go off, a green light would go on, the box would start ticking like a clock with various internal relays, and the trains would start in motion. The idea seemed to be a race for which train could get to the other part of the track fastest.

in the main control box were several rolling odometer-style counters which would either count certain events or would count time. Each had a reset button which could set them back to 0 individually.

The device was obviously rather complex and elaborate but I'm not sure that this thing was totally working when I saw it, so I'm not sure what was the real point of this game.

If anyone can tell me more about this thing (who manufactured it, etc.) I would apreciate it.

Thanks

E.L. Nine

[Anonymous]

I have a question for anyone who may recognize the train set that I'm about to describe. If you recognize this and can tell me anything more about it, I would appreciate it.

This train set is at least 30 years old, and probably much older. It came in two large black trunk-style boxes. The more blocky box (the master control) contained various buttons, switches, lights and counters. The other, wider, longer, flatter, box folded out and contained the train set (probably N-guage). The two boxes were connected together with a thick electrical cable. There were actually two sets of tracks that were mirror images of each other attached to the insides of the box. The tracks had two parts - one windy and another straight. At opposite edges of the box, you would attach metal control panels which had a forward/stop/reverse knob as well as a few other buttons.

Two players are obviously situated on opposite sides. Someone would press a start button on the control pannel in the master control box, a red light would go off, a green light would go on, the box would start ticking like a clock with various internal relays, and the trains would start in motion. The idea seemed to be a race for which train could get to the other part of the track fastest.

in the main control box were several rolling odometer-style counters which would either count certain events or would count time. Each had a reset button which could set them back to 0 individually.

The device was obviously rather complex and elaborate but I'm not sure that this thing was totally working when I saw it, so I'm not sure what was the real point of this game.

If anyone can tell me more about this thing (who manufactured it, etc.) I would apreciate it.

Thanks

E.L. Nine