Toccata for Toy Trains, extra cool film from 1957

[TJ Lee]

Wonderful film. Thanks for posting it.

Best,

TJ

[paultheloon]

There's a david and goliath video on youtube.com that  takes place in a trainyard. 

[wheelman]

Thanks. That was very entertaining.

Wayne

[vsmith]

Toccata for Toy Trains, extra cool film from 1957
 
This is just too wonderfull not to share

Yes I know this is all tinplate and collectables and yes, it already has been posted in the CTT forum, but as a  piece of railroadania, model train history, and just plain good film making this is a wonderful film! Lots of ideas how to film your layout regardless of what your scale de jour is:

http://youtu.be/oorg2q0D8hs
 
This was made by Modernist couple extraordinare of Ray and Charles Eames and is a fabulous piece of film making. Some neat O and Gauge 1 pieces in here. Still trying to figure out how parts of this were shot, its far better than most contemporary videos of model trains.
 
This was made in the late 1950's, these trains were valuable then, I shudder to think how valuable this collection would be today.