CharlieS posted:That wasn't a "catalog"... it resembled more of a "pamphlet". All 8 pages of it!
Couldn't post without making a negative comment about someone else's choice?
Give it a break, CharlieS. 
CW and I have an ongoing debate about toy train collecting vs. operating. If it makes you feel any better, I only have two postwar Lionel catalogs, and they're both in pristine condition: 1966, my favorite; and 1969, CW's favorite. So there.
By today's standards where catalogs look more like phonebooks of years past (when phonebooks were actually printed), even the 1966 catalog feels like a pamphlet. But at 8 pages in 1969, the catalog was right in sync with The Lionel Toy Corporation that year... as the doors at Hoffman Place in Hillside, NJ were all but closing. Paging through that catalog -- even today -- one can't help but realize how close we came to the end of O-Gauge toy train offerings altogether. And look where we are now. Nobody could have predicted what we have today. Nobody.
David
P.S. BTW, for anybody who wants old Lionel catalogs in pristine condition, look up Dan Olson in Washington state. Not sure of his current selection of catalogs, but that's where I got mine years ago.
