You never what you are going to find when you go through old photos.

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Thu, 2010-08-12 19:40 — feldman718

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You never know what you are going to find when you go through old photgraphs.

My wife, who is in the process of emptyng her mother's apartment, was going through some old photographs when she found the photo below:

This was taken in October of 1956 so my wife (the litle girl sittingh in the center of the railroad tracks) was 5 1/2 years old. She doesnt remember much about this train set other than it came from her uncle who was a toy salesman back then. Of course, little did she know that she would eventually marry a model railroader and have to put up with my hobby.

She doesn't remember this train set since it was a long rime ago and I can't identify it either. But if anyone who reads this recognizes it we would be interested in knowing who made it and what it was supposed to represent. I doubt very much that it was Lionel even though the tracks look look like Liionel. I suspect it was a Marx set but I haven't seen those in an awful long while.

Irv

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Great Photo

Fri, 2010-08-13 06:03 — caboose14

While I can't offer any insight into the brand or train set itself, it certainly is a neat photograph. I sure wish I had a photo of my wife playing with trains! Maybe I could tease her back about her secret love of trains whenever the eye rolling and "oh brother"s start when I go out of my way to do something "train-ish".

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The only time my wife rolls her eyes...

Fri, 2010-08-13 07:47 — feldman718

The only time my wife rolls her eyes is when she thinks I am spending money we don't have on trains. That doesn't happen a;; that much but it does happen and I don't thin that is unusual in any relationship. I am sure even JoeF has experienced it a time or two.

At least my wife is honest enough to have shown me and guiven me this picture and has allowed me to post it here.

Irv

I think I found it.....

Sat, 2010-08-14 13:32 — Bremner

I think I found her train....

http://www.pufferbellys.com/products/marx.htm

It is for sale for $90

Nope

Sat, 2010-08-14 18:19 — feldman718

It doesn't appear to fit the bill. Th ephoto you provided shows 2 4-2 at best. Her locomotive was a 4-4-4. Irv

I think I had that kind of

Sat, 2010-08-14 19:39 — kleaverjr

I think I had that kind of set once! I distinctly remember the caboose and tank car for sure! You couldn't use it with the standard lionel trains, so I didn't like it because the couplers were different. Ah, the memories.....

I never had anhything like that

Sun, 2010-08-15 04:12 — feldman718

I never had anything from Lionel as my parents couldn't afford it in the 1950s and by the time they could i had no desire for one. I was more interested in cars and girls by then so ven though I might have joined a train club then, there were nonw that I knew about in my neighborhhood.

I had had a battery powered train set about the same time as my wife had hers but the wheels fell off and it was discarded.