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PostPosted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 9:02 pm 
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Thanks for the mall RR photos. I haven't seen that one before.


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Christmas 1950:

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Looking at this picture makes one think it's a few years earlier. I was taking a look at it with an American Flyer whiz and he thought it was probably 1940-41, as the trains are three-rail Flyer, and most of the accessories are late pre-war vintage. If so, these kids would not see any new trains in the stores for the next five or six years.

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You're right about the Flyer. I used to own the 2-rail version of those coaches, so I should have noticed.


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Hadn't been by this post for awhile--have to share!


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:57 am 
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National Christmas Museum display, Paradise, Pa.:

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Cardboard houses with prewar Lionel...

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The silence here is deafening...

Anybody putting up a holiday layout/garden for 2016?

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Store-window display from 1939-1941 timeframe:

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A 1930's Standard-gauge carpet layout:

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Some people still had money.

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No holiday village this year, but I did manage to throw a loop of track under the Christmas tree for the kids to play with. A Lionel 2018 from 1956, same vintage as me!

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Sixty years old...easily do another sixty (the Lionel that is)...

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Wow
there are some wonderful photos here


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