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Re: Holiday Village Gallery

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

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 9:27 pm
by winced36
winced36 wrote: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.

Paul II

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 7:19 am
by paulrace
You're right about the Flyer. I used to own the 2-rail version of those coaches, so I should have noticed.

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 5:40 am
by javinda
Hadn't been by this post for awhile--have to share!

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:57 am
by winced36
National Christmas Museum display, Paradise, Pa.:

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Cardboard houses with prewar Lionel...

Paul II

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:19 pm
by winced36
The silence here is deafening...

Anybody putting up a holiday layout/garden for 2016?

Paul II

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2016 6:50 am
by winced36
Store-window display from 1939-1941 timeframe:

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Paul II

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 8:17 am
by winced36
A 1930's Standard-gauge carpet layout:

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Some people still had money.

Paul II

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 9:18 pm
by winced36
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)...

Paul II

Re: Holiday Village Gallery

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:50 am
by javinda
Wow
there are some wonderful photos here