Nostalgia

Speaking of Nostalgia, wasn't Jim Bunte editor of CTT back then? He was very creative, whatever happened to him after his CTT and Classic Toys days? Miketg

Speaking of - I'm going through my OSR/OGR stacks and tossing as many as I can. The older ones are more entertaining, so a few are getting kept. A sample (note the lack of anything ending in ".com"; we seemed to make it through the day pretty well):

"The OSR Forum". Sounds odd.

Upper right corner: the ever-popular "O-GUAGE". Huh? Oh - "O-GAUGE". (This remains too common to be only typos.)

Miss these guys. Have a couple of their pieces, including a 2-8-8-0 Bull Moose, Alco PA. All brass. Run well.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.......

Mike:

When in doubt; search on LinkedIn.  Jim has been a publishing and marketing consultant in the Los Angeles area for the past 12 years now.

Curt

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be......."

Yeah, and the future has already come and gone.

D500 posted:

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be......."

Yeah, and the future has already come and gone.

The future looked much better on TV.

Official O Gauge content:

Rusty

Rusty Traque posted:

D500 posted:

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be......."

Yeah, and the future has already come and gone.

The future looked much better on TV.

Rusty

I suspect that's 'cause we were all younger back when we saw the future on TV.

Curt

Yeah, I'm still waiting for the flying cars, robots, colonies on the Moon and Mars...

But at least we still have toy trains!

D500 posted:

Speaking of - I'm going through my OSR/OGR stacks and tossing as many as I can. The older ones are more entertaining, so a few are getting kept. A sample (note the lack of anything ending in ".com"; we seemed to make it through the day pretty well):

 

Miss these guys. Have a couple of their pieces, including a 2-8-8-0 Bull Moose, Alco PA. All brass. Run well.

I remember that engine well.  The picture is of the prototype.  When it came from Korea we put it on the track and it went up in smoke. It was wired with 28 gauge wire!  After Ed rewired it, I installed my sound/lighting unit.  This time it was the tender that went up in smoke.  I said, No Problem! I built two sound units.  I put in the second sound/lighting unit.  Up in smoke for the third time.

Called it a night.  Built a third sound unit the next day and that one worked fine.

Oh the marvels of digital electronics.

The helical cut gears and sprung drivers were totally incompatible.  The front gearbox ground itself to brass powder.  Bill took it on the show circuit with one motor free wheeling inside.  

One of these became the experimental loco.  It was rebuilt with sintered iron drivers and a GN Glacier Park paint job.  

Lou N

Miketg posted:

Speaking of Nostalgia, wasn't Jim Bunte editor of CTT back then? He was very creative, whatever happened to him after his CTT and Classic Toys days? Miketg

 

Jim has been busy in the creative arts for the past fifteen years or so.  A good guy, he has always been available to Lionel fans and trainheads.

He has recently relocated from his home east of Los Angeles.

artyoung posted:

Yeah, I'm still waiting for the flying cars, robots, colonies on the Moon and Mars...

But at least we still have toy trains!

Sounds like another person who at one time way back when may have had a subscription to Popular Science and/or Mechanics...so where is all that stuff?!   I remember the promised video phones as well--but the delivery vehicle (Skype/internet) was never anticipated! 

D500 posted:

Speaking of - I'm going through my OSR/OGR stacks and tossing as many as I can. The older ones are more entertaining, so a few are getting kept. A sample (note the lack of anything ending in ".com"; we seemed to make it through the day pretty well):

"The OSR Forum". Sounds odd.

Upper right corner: the ever-popular "O-GUAGE". Huh? Oh - "O-GAUGE". (This remains too common to be only typos.)

Miss these guys. Have a couple of their pieces, including a 2-8-8-0 Bull Moose, Alco PA. All brass. Run well.

interested in selling them? I like the older Runs myself of O Gauge RR

juniata guy posted:

Rusty Traque posted:

D500 posted:

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be......."

Yeah, and the future has already come and gone.

The future looked much better on TV.

Rusty

I suspect that's 'cause we were all younger back when we saw the future on TV.

Curt

The older I get the better I was. 

Pete

Miketg posted:

Speaking of Nostalgia, wasn't Jim Bunte editor of CTT back then? He was very creative, whatever happened to him after his CTT and Classic Toys days? Miketg

 

Jim Bunte was on CTT's staff as an associate editor and became editor of Collecting Toys magazine when it was launched in 1993.

He left Kalmbach to work for Lionel in Michigan circa 1995.

As others have noted, he ended up back in California after leaving Lionel.

I liked the stuff he wrote for CTT but he was even more enjoyable on Collecting Toys. Very good writer.

I always liked this catalog cover:

This I remember indefinitely when I lived in my old neighborhood in Bridgewater, NJ. Oh how toy train media has changed since the early 90's...