Lionel Trains on CBS TV, Last night. Do you see any thing wrong with this layout? • Video

All this angst from a 2 minute tv clip. 

SIRT posted:

The year, 1989.

Trains - Were Dads Post war, not pre-war, handed down to his Sons.

No caboose - Sheldon unlike us, would have no use for a caboose.

Ball launcher - Part of Sheldon's experiment.

Everything was accurate including the autos on the streets to the Bell telephone hanging on the wall.

Since I don't watch the NFL for the second season now, I found this show to be very interesting for Monday night viewing.

Spot on.  

From Mr. Webster

angst  -  noun

a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general.

a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general.

a feeling of persistent worry about something trivial.

This is not me, just a TV show: Gary 

Just watch and enjoy and don't analyze. :-)

Yep angst...

a feeling of persistent worry about something trivial.

I'm good with that.  Feel free to use your own adjective. 

"This is the golden age, before all the technology."

Since when is electrical equipment not technology? In fact, of course, any tool, weapon or product that we overpriced apes have ever made is "technology." 

From Lionel's Facebook Page.  They are using this video to sell trains.  Good for them.  They have no "Angst" • Just want to make money.

Lionel has their objective. It is a comedy TV show, Let's sell trains:  Gary

What are you even talking about? Of course it is good for Lionel and the hobby in general.  I bet a few people even thought about their childhood trains.

Folks here are worried about whether there is a wire going to a transformer, whether the ball jumping the tunnel is real, and even if the train is right for the time frame.  That is the angst. Perhaps I should have used nit picking.  I personally enjoyed that small portion of the show and felt it was well done.  We tend to nit pick the details in spite of some good exposure.  Although I guess folks were trying to figure  out if there was anything wrong so maybe the title of the thread was driving factor in looking for something to be wrong. 

Good for Lionel using the video. 

I received my first Lionel train when 7 yrs old.  Was given more for trains at Christmas and birthdays, usually only a switch or a few more sections of track. Only had one engine that was not a Scout type, a small Hudson 2055 with freight set.  Christmas was time for a set as a gift under the tree.. or when I was told to go get the Christmas "stuff" from the trunk of the car (good hiding spot for/from a young boy).  Didn't get too many accessories or buildings until I purchased a large Marx set with all that, using my yard cutting money and a SS Kresge's lay-away plan.  By the time I graduated from high school I owned six "trains" and a lot of track, a couple signals and the Mark buildings.  Forward to the Early '70s and my dad and I were buying Lionel PW in Houston flea markets and from a couple individuals for extremely low prices.. St Fe 2333 AA F3s for under $200.... MINT 2046, in box, for $60 (for my dad's birthday 1971)... bought our first 2020 turbine for less than $50... freight cars for a couple dollars each, dad loved pulling his long string of double dome Sunoco tank cars with his St Fe 2333 F3s... numerous PW small/semi scale steamers for $25 or less..... and Lionel accessories, signals, ZWs,  etc.

Yes, "back in the day" Lionel trains could be obtained for pennies on the dollar compared to what they sell for today.  But, would have been great to be a collector back then.  My dad and I were only operators, laying down as much track as we could on the layout in his 2 car garage and amassed a fair amount of Lionel PW before his passing in 1978.  Yes, still have it all, and will until I pass it on.......

Jesse         TCA  12-68275

   Well, we were asked what was wrong without specific guidlines for context. That loosely implies "Please analyze this for error" or.. "What nitpicking can we accomplish", and everone has contributed to that goal in one way or another. Then, we analyzed those answers.

I.e., we got food for thought, since we could find much to laugh, cry, or be angry about outside of the scripted humor. Bravo Props dept. & electrical

  Hey, is his tunnel Post War, or MPC era?

  I thought it might be modern, Ive never seen that exact tunnel, but thought it had a more modern look than the MPC era foam I recall.  I never saw a foam one from PW era, all mine were pulp paper, but figured they were made in foam by the late 60s at least. I recall leaving Sears the first year they nixed the trains for Atari, and shuffling distressedly to the Christmas displays in Franks Nursery for a tunnel. But I didn't like what I saw because it was now foam and bright green that year, no more pulp tunnels. 

trainroomgary posted:

From Lionel's Facebook Page.  They are using this video to sell trains.  Good for them.  They have no "Angst" • Just want to make money.

Lionel has their objective. It is a comedy TV show, Let's sell trains:  Gary

Anyone already subscribed to Lionel's Facebook page is likely already very much a Lionel customer.  The display of 60-year-old products here... & nothing from the "current" Lionel, will have little or no effect on sales.... other than the continued goodwill promotion of O gauge railroading... especially in the months leading up to Christmas.  I understand that, inexplicably, "Young Sheldon" will take October off, & the next new episode will air in the first week of November.  Go figure.

I believe the yellow ball is a CGI trick, I am almost certain.   It was well done.

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I'll give it some time but I found it rather dry.  With Big Bang it had a big lead in so we'll have to see if it can hold it's numbers.  If they show trains every week we'll know they'll have at least 300 viewers or so. 

Radio Ron while I agree most of Lionel's FB audience is already train people, I'm sure a few folks saw the clip or the show and probably thought back to their childhood.  Hopefully one or two of them will get a set out and rekindle some fun.

The layout in last weeks YS show had an Auto Loader.  Wonder if it is the same one that was on old Sheldon's shelf in BBT?

Also, since when do diesels have whistles?

I couldn't wait for the series to start. I like it. As to the trains I watched that video and found nothing out of the ordinary. Of  course I was not really looking under a microscope for anything. In a couple of episodes a mention of money being tight came up. So even if it is 1989 he could be playing with hand me downs. In one episode with his mima and father he managed through blackmail to get a new engine which looked like the late eighties.............Paul 

CSXJOE posted:

 

Also, since when do diesels have whistles?

I noticed that too. Maybe there was a whistle shed I didn't see???

paul 2 posted:

In one episode with his mima and father he managed through blackmail to get a new engine which looked like the late eighties.............Paul 

I think it was the 8061 Chessie System U36C that Lionel MPC made for the 1070 Royal Limited Set in 1980. So, it did make sense for the time period, and probably wasn’t terribly expensive for Sheldon’s family, even back then.