20th aniversary issue

[CNJ831]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bob Hayes

How about the cartoons in the ads for Tru-Scale roadbed? Or the Silver Plate Lines?

Bob Hayes

I expect Women's Lib would have a fit over Tru-Scale's ads if they appeared today. Silver Plate Road I loved and there was further mention of its history on this forum just a few weeks ago. And then there was that brief Canadian band on MR as pornography!

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[Bob Hayes]

How about the cartoons in the ads for Tru-Scale roadbed? Or the Silver Plate Lines?

Bob Hayes

[conford]

The MRs from the mid-50's are a treasure. It is fascinating to see how much the hobby has developed, and also to see what ideas were around even back then. If you are patient you can buy whole years of back issues off eBay for about $7 per year. Plus shipping. Then sit back and enjoy.

I don't think MR will ever reprint these, as many of the articles would have to be re edited due to changes in technology etc. Remember that back in those days, asbestos was used as a scenery material. But boy they are fun to read.

Enjoy
Peter
conford

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QUOTE: Originally posted by ARTHILL

I just ran across my copy of MRR 20th aniversary issue. Jan 54. Great stuff. I loved the history of MR. I would like to see that reprinted. The first pike in America was at the Chicago world's fair and there were three of them. OO was bigger than HO. Kalmbach got it all started. WOW. People were buiulding engines out of tin cans.

With regard to the Chicago Fair, the statement is not altogether accurate. While the 1933 layout may have been the first fully scenicked, large, realistic O-scale layout, there had been quite a number of individual "layouts" of more modest dimensions, with less accurate motive power, and with cruder scenery, throughout the 1920's and early 1930's in the United States. Allan Lake Rice was operating a small HO layout by around 1930 with American made equipment.

In fact, the first operating true HO locomotive in the States was probable Rice's little Reading camelback back way back in 1928!

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[ARTHILL]

I just ran across my copy of MRR 20th aniversary issue. Jan 54. Great stuff. I loved the history of MR. I would like to see that reprinted. The first pike in America was at the Chicago world's fair and there were three of them. OO was bigger than HO. Kalmbach got it all started. WOW. People were buiulding engines out of tin cans.