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http://www.shorpy.com/node/24103?size=_original#caption on caseit does not work. How many of us satrted that way? I did but it was Marx. I wish I would have kept it.
I did also......but I never cared for three rail or the long overhang on the equipment on the sharp curves. I had a Gilbert American Flyer.....1947, 4-6-2 with smoke. Not the pill, but the little red liquid bladder squeezeable containers. I can still smell the pine Christmas tree mixed with the smoke from the engine. Mine must be in toy traain heaven, because everything disappeared after a house move in 1955. I was already in HO though, starting in 1950. So the Flyer stuff was not really missed too much....but wish I still had it......hope it made someone happy, it did Me.......
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Frank
I started with Fleischmann HO my father bought when we lived in Germany (he was in the U.S. Army) in the mid 50's.
But I used to pour over the Lionels in the Sears Christmas Wish Book every year. As an adult I now have some 3 rail Lionel I run for my grandson. And I still have the Fleischmann and it still runs.
Paul
CGW121 How many of us satrted that way? I did but it was Marx. I wish I would have kept it.
How many of us satrted that way? I did but it was Marx. I wish I would have kept it.
I started that way, including using "O" instead of "O-27". Had 4 022 track switches, too.
And I still do. The layout's in the garage, on semi-permanent retirement. It and the extensions took up a whole room at Christmas. Last set up about 1999.
That room has since been civilized by she-who-civilizes. Which is mostly a good thing.
HO, these days.
Ed
I think I had that same truss bridge (I think I had that same shirt too although I do not recall buttoning the top button like this young fellow did). Nice Lional "O" -- I had O-27 and always felt a bit inferior to the neighbor boys who had genuine O (same gauge but O-27 trains were approximately S scale in size). The steam locomotive might be the famous Lionel steam turbine engine. I think I see a tin Marx crossing guard shack, unless it is from an Erector set.
Kodachrome was amazing.
Dave Nelson
The good old ping pong table! Looks like it was allocated to layotu duty only as there are holes drilled for the turnout wires and also the wires going to the Lockons.
I have a bunch or pre-war Lionel a friend gave me, needs some work to get running, and I need a new transformer, the one that came with it is beyond what I would consider safe to use, and even if I repalced the deteriorated power cord, I don;t trust the rest of it. I also have a Fluer O scale Burlington Zephyr set that was my Dad's - it requires O track, 31" radius, t does not run around O-27 curves. I used to have the transforer for that one, it had almost no speed control, pretty much just on and off, which explains why the sheet metal is so dented - run until it rolls off on a curve. And I have my Dad's 1948 Lionel Scout set as well. Main difference there is that set has mechanical couplers only, no way to remotely uncouple. There's a piece of track with a triangular ramp that you lift up by pressing a lever that will uncouple cars.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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