I was just thinking back to when I would have Lionel trains set up around the Christmas tree, and up pops your post. Nice timing!
That's cool that Lionel reproduced those. When I was young, I found my brother's late 1950's Lionel catalogs and was always drawn to the Timken car. I didn't understand the nature of it, but it was colorful and I liked the spinning Roller Freight graphic. (The image below is not mine.)
Wow. I once had a very decent sized collection of their post-WWII catalogs. So many hours of wonderment, thumbing through those pages!
My oldest brother kept a few from the late '50s and one from '60. I still have them, but they're in terrible shape, mostly from me thumbing through them a thousand times. This is the cover of the 1960 catalog (not my photo) and I remember being entranced by the matching O and HO trains. Even after 60+ years, the artwork in Lionel's catalogs endures.
It is getting to be the time of year when we think about putting up our Christmas tree. I wanted to do ours today but life got in the way. It looks like it will have to wait until Thursday. I know that the Timken car was to demonstrate the advantage of Timken Roller Bearing Trucks but I wonder if the car was used in regular freight service? My post-war catalogs are also gone. I would pour over them day after day, especially leading up to Christmas, dreaming about all the wonderful trains and hoping Santa would bring me some. Happy memories. I agree, Lionel's artwork was outstanding. It was very effective advertising back in the day and still inspires us today.
I know this is old but it looks like one of your layout persons got to be one of the lucky 48 to own a Tucker!
Looks like Dean and Sam Winchester are in town... that's never a good sign for the things that go bump in the night...
Thanks LL. It's a great place to watch trains, grab a snack and maybe pick up something new for the layout.
I think I want to shrink myself down and move there. Looks like a great place to live. Thanks for posting these Country Joe. Great stuff always.
On Saturday I went with a couple of O gauge friends to a train show in Brooksville, FL and then to Zitnik's Trains in Pinellas Park, FL. It's a long drive across the state but it was a fun day. At the show I found this Railking NY Jets boxcar. Being a life long Jets fan I couldn't pass it up. At Zitnik's I found Lionel hopper and gondola cars for a very reasonable price and they are New York Central. I also found a pack of 3 mounted police officers by O Line Reproductions. This is one of them on patrol near the park. The other two are in different parts of the city until I decide on a permeant place for them. That's it for now.
I added people to my 20th Century Limited passenger cars. This was an easy and fun project. I think the cars look a lot better with people in them.