Hi, I was walking out to my car when I came across these pieces of track in the gutter. I know they were in bad shape but I just couldn't leave them there. I picked them up and they'll find a home in my miscellaneous box. I wonder what became of the rest of the train.
Bob
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Are you in either Houston or Florida?
Similar story here many years back down the road day before garbage curb pickup i saw an old prewar lionel box in decent condition including its graphics being tossed with regular cardboard boxes so took it home.
It says Lionel outfit # 133 which i believe had the prewar 262 engine / tender , small tank car , gondola and caboose.
Have on shelf an original 262 engine /tender with the 2green /cream -607/08 observation car just not sure what box that set came in.
when I was in jr high I found a box in the local dump with some Pre and Postwar Lionel. Still have and run most of it.
A pal of mine ran a street sweeper in a big city for years, and he used to find all kinds of interesting (but moistly disgusting) stuff on the curbs.
He'd found several train-related things over the years. He once told me he'd found at least 3-4 complete train sets in the box in gutters, in various conditions of course.
The one thing he found that we never could figure out was an original WW2 German general's peaked cap. It never made any sense why someone would just throw away something that valuable. He sold it a while back to help pay for his son's college.
"One man's junk is another man's treasure"
looks like Marx
p51 posted:A pal of mine ran a street sweeper in a big city for years, and he used to find all kinds of interesting (but moistly disgusting) stuff on the curbs.
He'd found several train-related things over the years. He once told me he'd found at least 3-4 complete train sets in the box in gutters, in various conditions of course.
The one thing he found that we never could figure out was an original WW2 German general's peaked cap. It never made any sense why someone would just throw away something that valuable. He sold it a while back to help pay for his son's college.
Operation paperclip
Steamer posted:when I was in jr high I found a box in the local dump with some Pre and Postwar Lionel. Still have and run most of it.
That's how Richard Kughn got started in train collecting!
Bill
Interesting pieces - the curve looks as if it's in a section of Johnson's roadbed. What is the roadbed material?
The straight looks almost like FasTrack.
The rest of the layout is also interesting to ponder.
The roadbed appears to be plastic. The track is removable from the roadbed. Bob
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