by waaytoomuchintothis » Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:00 am
Harry made a joke the other day about racing model trains, and I half remembered something from over 50 years ago. It wasn't Lionel or Atlas, or any of the other common named outfits, but someone like Western Auto, Gilbert, or Marx, a less popular maker, but I remember an ad at Christmastime for a train racing set. The illustration was of two tracks side by side with a fantasy red streamliner passenger train and an identical one in blue, and I remember thinking, " Who would want to ride on a racing train?" I was pretty young. Does anyone else remember those goofy things?