Dear Fellow Trainees:
I have been going through my Super-O track, and besides discovering a few of the early 1957 pieces with the writing in the middle of the pieces, I believe that I found something rather peculiar.
I looked at the 1959 Lionel catalog page 39 and other catalogs, and the half straight shows 11 ties, while the actual issue has only 10.
This being said, I found what I thought was a custom cut piece. It is 4 1/4" long. When I turned it over, I was quite surprised to notice that there were sets of interlocking tabs on each end, which would not be there if it was in fact, custom cut.
Notice that the ties of the Straight and half straight do not coincide.
Has anyone ever come across something like this before?
Bob Mintz
