Oh, boy...a lot of names I recognize and had...dunno what happened to our Keystone
gas station described above. My mother gave many of my brother and I's old toys,
including Marx playsets...he did those, I did trains, he had just three, a ranch set,
a western town set, and an army base set...to his kids. I have picked up some of
the western towns and ranches, but these are collectible and not cheap so have not
gotten deep into those. The one toy, or set of toys we owned and USED with trains
and playsets was the Gilbert Erectorbrik sets....they are not common...I have found
a few, but none of the large #5 (I think) sets we had about three of. We had one
Erector set, and one chemistry set, but never got interested in those, but the Erectorbrik...it fit right in. Used to build brik houses outdoors around the 4th and blow them up with firecrackers. Did the same with the one American (square) log set we had, and with model airplanes. I built then many Highway Pioneers and Hudson Miniatures (large wooden) antique car model kits, and have picked those kits up when blundered on. My aunt, who hunted antiques all over eastern Ky., and who lived into
her '90's, gave us a 1920's Sturditoy pressed steel dump truck she found. It disappeared in a move, but I found its twin, in the same town we lived in then, oddly, off eBay, but it was a different truck that had been found in Tenn. by the seller. I have not gotten into cap pistols, but we had dozens, that we broke. They, too, are pricey, which keeps me from going off on that tangent.