I was flipping through HEMMINGS MOTOR NEWS, the vintage car nuts' "bible", and on Page 8 of current April issue I found an editorial with the above title. At the very end of the list of automotive related "collectibles" was a paragraph headed "TOY TRAINS"! Previous listed "cheap collectibles" had included model cars, in which the editor advocates 1/43rd die cast, and vintage car brochures as suitable substitutions for the real thing. Of course, it can be argued that Brooklins are not "cheap" and that actually few of the myriads of makes, much less models of autos are available as models in any scale. I can attest that, although the market is shrinking, for the same reason many fear the train market is shrinking, which is the aging of an interested population, vintage car
brochures are not "cheap" either. The "Toy Trains" paragraph goes on to recommend collecting auto carrier
flat cars with a variety of model cars. Just as I collect RPO's, I can bet a number of train people have
specialized collections of these car carriers, but may not think of them as particularly "cheap collectibles".
