Hello, this is my first and only post in the Tinplate category.
For my 4th Christmas (age 3) in 1939, I got a Marx windup train, which ran a 5-foot loop around our Christmas tree.
I couldn't wind it up all the way, so my Dad had to do it. (He was a PRR fireman at the time.)
RipTrack Hal (Age 79)
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Hal,
Do you still have it?
HEY JOE,
Nope...haven't seen it for 75 years!
RipTrack Hal
Gee...you didn'[t have it long...what happened to it?
HEY COLORADO HI-RAILER,
I didn't keep it because I got an ELECTRIC train for the next Christmas (1940) when I was four, so I threw that old windup away.
What would YOU have done in 1940...kept that obsolete toy?
See...your parents weren't even born then!
RIPTRACK HAL, age 79
I got a Hafner windup, maybe in the early 1950's, after I got a Marx #25000 electric train set about 1946, and I do not know what happened to the Hafner....I think it might have been pitched in the move in the early 1960's. Wow, for you to have gotten your windup before my parents were born, in 1919 and 1920, you must be 101 years old! Hang in there! (uh, I see above you said you are just 79?)
HEY COLORADO HI-RAILER,
There must be some misunderstanding...I was born in 1936, making your parents my predecessors, and making you almost old enough to have conversations with me!
RIP-TRACK HAL
I used to laugh at the driver pictures in those toy Marx automobiles!
The driver was pictured full-face from the front, and in profile from the side, painted on both the windshield and on the driver's side window. You saw 2 pictures of the same face!
But that's the way Louis Marx built his toy empire!
RipTrack
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