TEST YOUR MEMORY ?

[ARTHILL]

That was my era. I got an English Yard Bird with valve gear kit. I still have most of it. Laid brass track on Tru scale road bed. Was trying to model an iron mine in Northern Minnesota that was near my Gparents cabin. Started Model Railroader Mag in 1945. Talked about all their people being off to war and no materials for models. First cars were ore cars from DMIR. Still have the memories and the new layout is trying to keep them going. Love my new BL, sounds just like I remember as a kid. I would love to hear what others remember from those wild times. Art

[CNJ831]

Yes, and you learned to model with wood within given tollerances, how to carefully follow detailed instructions, to perfect your model painting and decaling abilities, and ended up with something you created by your own skills from very basic materials and you treasured it.

However, today you fork over $40, open a box and put a car assembled by some guy in China on the rails...personally accomplishing absolutely zero in the process! Has the hobby advanced or digressed?

CNJ831

[grandeman]

That's a little before my time. I do remember the 70's. Still run some of my old equipment with my son on our current railroad.

[rayhippard]

Who else besides me remembers HO modeling in the 1950's & 1960's ?
What I wouldn't have done or given for any of the models we have today.
My first kit was a wood box car that was litterally a few pieces of wood and
a decal sheet for C&NW. No airbrushes. You painted by hand brush and thought it looked good. Only dummy couplers. Trucks had to be assembled from many parts including the coil springs which could easily fly away when putting them in the side frames. But HO looked sooooo coooool to a 12 year old who had out grown his Lionel.
Ray--------Great Northern fan.