Also Donna Reed did a Savings Bond commercial at Christmas featuring a Lionel Train layout showing how the value of bond increases
In the comic books as a child Bruce had Trains
Plasticville made road race accesssories
Saw Adam Weat WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in 1987 at a convention talking about non batman things including a stint with James Garner
Saw a Batmobile at NY museum last year with Toy Train Collection
Thanks for those shots Becky! The Barris Batmobile just looks right, that's why it's timeless.
The ornament version plays the theme!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
I remember that slot car track from "Batman!" I don't remember which episode, but I DO remember that track, it was the biggest one I'd ever seen, at least until I saw the one installed at Hiway Hobby House in Ramsey NJ a few years later. The width was just about the same but Hiway Hobby's was a few feet longer.
Sure, this was the time the slot car craze was really taking off, just about every one had a set.
And I second that, Rest in Peace Adam, you're the REAL Batman, just like Burt Ward was the real Robin and Alan Napier was the real Alfred. Alan was just so cool!
To say nothing of that George Barris creation being the REAL Batmobile! No Batmobile since has come close.
Not a train, but owing to the news today, here's the slot car track with Plasticville buildings that was set up in Wayne Manor on Batman:
Rest in Peace Adam, and we thank you!
Addams Family. On YOUTUBE there was a "Leave it to Beaver" TV Clip where they were running some American Flyer trains.
G BEAR
Back to the Future III
Doc builds an 1885 model train layout to demostrate to Marty how they will get back to the future. He appologizes that it isn't to scale! lol
Also what about Gumby Adventure Train Trouble Lionel 2035 in that
thesiding It was Bachmann HO as well as G scale What I want to know is what they did with that big Thomas when the fight was over
It was Bachmann HO as well as G scale
What I want to know is what they did with that big Thomas when the fight was over
LOL, good question!
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
No one has mentioned the super hero film, Ant-Man! About 3/4 through, there's a great fight/chase scene in a girl's bedroom on a Thomas the Tank Engine set! I think it's three rail, but I may be wrong. If you haven't seen the film, it was much better than I expected--funny bits yet plenty of super hero action.
I like the New York apartment layout Harry Belfaonte had in 'The World, the Flesh, and the Devil'.
Was a multi room Super O layout.
Thanks for the video post, Rob. And, I stand corrected: I thought it was Cronyn (as 'beep-beep-beep'), but it was Sidney Blackmer.
the original "Day the Earth Stood Still"
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
MtrmnMike52There's a Cary Grant movie from 1951,
Rob
There's a Cary Grant movie from 1951, "People Will Talk". He plays a professor, and there's a scene where he has an extensive 3-rail layout set up on the floor of a dining (?) room. There are three trains running, each controlled by him and two other professors (Hume Cronyn and Walter Slezak) from seperate rooms. They announce their trains with 1, 2, or 3 'beeps', and the switches are thrown to route each train. Things work well, with some close calls...but inevitably, they all have an unscheduled meet in the center. It is determined that there was a communication malfunction. (Not nesessarily my fave...just worth mentioning.)
No Day The Earth Stood Still?
And on the subject of aliens Mork and Mindy with Johnathan Winters
I second that! I haven't seen "Play Safe!" in years, and don't you love that artistic rendition of a wheel-slip? And those cartoon streamliners are a gas!
"Safe Roads" is fun too. I wonder if those Jam Handy film company technicians gave Lionel the idea for smoke units? Standard gauge trains (and the parents of the kid in the film must have been well-heeled!) never got smoke units but the O gauge line certainly did.
Penny, great videos!
Regards, Roy
When the GRINCH was stealing Christmas, he ran a toy train into his sack, along with all of the toot-tootlers and bong-bonglers...
Add my vote for the original Addams Family TV series.
Who didn't watch Mister Rogers, who had Trolley...?
I think MR or CTT did an article on this.
Davey and Goliath: What's that? The New Baben railroad?
fifedogRichard Dreyfuss used a bit too much scenery on his HO layout in Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
Nah! He's just centering his layout around a focal point!
Have you ever seen either of these? Play Safe has a great layout with Marx trains and Safe Roads has a standard gauge train wreck!
Richard Dreyfuss used a bit too much scenery on his HO layout in Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
ADCX Rob"Davey & Goliath Episode: How many pieces of toy train equipment can you identify?". In this episode of Davey & Goliath(trains scenes start at 7 min. mark):
In this episode of Davey & Goliath(trains scenes start at 7 min. mark):
I don't remember the episode either, but if that sneaky Johnny Brady got a HO set, well, serves him right!
We Classic Toy Trainiacs know what HO really stands for, "How Ordinary!"
Hee, hee, hee!
Well, I don't "remember" it as I wasn't around when the show originally aired, but I do know the episode thanks to Antenna TV which airs the show. Lionel Santa Fe Alco A unit with silver 2400 series streamliners circles Plasticville buildings. Johnny Brady only got an HO set!
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