Cool Lionel train picture

What a great photo. Too bad ya don't see that any more....trains have been replaced by I-phones and Nook's and what ever else.

Great photo, thanks for sharing. I remember the old Higbee's but I'm not old enough to have seen the wonderful train displays at Christmas time.

Paul

Not only a very nostalgic shot of the type many of us still remember (we always went to Higbee's in Cleveland for Christmas shopping when I was a kid), but also shot by none other than the famed Margaret Bourke-White, a true pioneer in photojournalism who documented the Great Depression for the Farm Security Administration and then went on to become a member of the LIFE magazine staff.

Neat....though it does not appear that any of the trains run. The track deadends coming off of the bridge, and the front two are display.
What is up with the right one at the end?
It appears to have the roof off and sideways?
Anyone know? And what is a good guess as to which engines #'s we are looking at?Greg

I also enjoyed that shot Allan, and as a fan of photography, and having grown up in the Life Magazine era, Margret Bourke-White's classic images for that magazine made her one of my all time favorites.

Ed Mullan

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Originally posted by cngw:
Neat....though it does not appear that any of the trains run. The track deadends coming off of the bridge, and the front two are display.
What is up with the right one at the end?
It appears to have the roof off and sideways?
Anyone know? And what is a good guess as to which engines #'s we are looking at?Greg

That looks like a swing bridge and I'll be it's in operation as the people are watching. I can't imagine a static display holding a large crowd for long.

Rusty

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Originally posted by Liam:
Look at the huge crowd gathered around to see them.

I suspect the huge crowd is there because nearly all of the kid's families could not afford them. I actually think that is a good lesson in life. It seems that today, most kids get almost anything they want.

As Tom McComas says in one of his videos, those were simpler times.

Earl