Model Train Journal

They just changed to 20 a hr for fast food workers, I think it starts next year.

Some Lobaugh!

Nice! How old are these?

Closing out October with Halloween...middle-school teacher daughter stopped by on Sunday to carve pumpkins for school:



Hope we get more than ten trick-or-treaters tonight.

CA just boosted fast food workers to $20 a hour. starting next year.

healey36 wrote:Nice! How old are these?

Sorry, just saw your comment. These should be prewar or early post war. Each are shown in the prewar Lobaugh catalogs.

Middle of the week put up a shelf to hold my big Bronze electrics. I figure the shelf has about 80 pounds of doorstop hanging on it lol

Dennis, How much Scotch tape is holding that up????

webenda wrote:Routine, thorough house cleaning

What's that?????????????

healey36 wrote:With the holidays rapidly approaching, I'm thinking back to toy trains displayed at the local Joe The Motorists' Friend store:

I miss the old times of model railroading. The HO cars I purchased back then were all kits. My Ulrich Ballast Gondola was all metal and had doors on the bottom that could be opened to dump gravel.

I see a Lionel 6034, @ $1.29, in the December 13, 1956 advertisement. I was in Roundhouse Electric Trains, Louisville, kY, November 9th, looking for Scout engines when my wife said, "Look at this... a baby box car that says, 'Baby Ruth,' on it." I didn't think one of these "baby" cars could look so good after 70 years.

I took it home for only, $10.00.

You got a nice unique car for a great price! Congrats!

Jim K

webenda wrote: I didn't think one of these "baby" cars could look so good after 70 years.

Behold the staying power of lead paint!

Jim K wrote:You got a nice unique for a great price! Congrats!

Jim K

Thank you for the good word in this 6034 find, Jim.

I haven't seen you post on MTJ for a long time Jim. How are you?

Chris Webster wrote:

webenda wrote: I didn't think one of these "baby" cars could look so good after 70 years.

Behold the staying power of lead paint!

Thank you for the lead warning, Chris. I won't lick it to see if it tastes like a Baby Ruth.

I did taste test my ZW when I got it. It tasted/smelled like a phenol plastic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... ed%20aroma.

Wayne,

You are correct, I have been missing in action for a bit. Some health matters to get through, before the next batch arrive. I just received my long awaited (like 1.25 years) Pennsy Doodlebug from Lionel. I like it just fine.

Train & Traction ON!

Jim K