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Right you are Rusty!  When I received my first Lionel electric train on a long ago 1951 Christmas (until then all I had was two Marx wind-ups) I also received a children's record player and a record that featured railroad station and train sounds.  I don't remember much about the recording other than it began with an announcement that began "Pennsylvania Station......", followed by the departure of a train whistling off.  Though forgotten in time, I assume it was a standard 78rpm recording.

No matter, I played the record while watching my brand new Lionel Lines 2-4-2 do the honors of running it's little wheels off, with SP smoke pellets belching white as snow smoke, over shiny O27 track which was nailed to a 4x8 board my grandfather had painted green to simulate grass.  It didn't bother me one single bit that the recording featured a departing passenger train instead of a freight.  Oh how well I remember even on this sunny September day, following the 2-4-2s tender was an orange PRR "Baby Ruth" box car, black as coal NYC gondola, and a fire engine red Lionel Lines "SP" caboose bringing up the rear.

A few months earlier, July 4, 1951, found me celebrating my "Milepost Five" birthday.  I received a hickory striped engineer's cap and a jacket which included the cloth heralds of several railroads sewed on the front.  The jacket also included silver buttons which had Pennsylvania Railroad's Keystone herald stamped on them.  When I was running my train all decked out in the uniform I was none other than Casey Jones himself at the throttle in person!

Note: When you wish upon a star that can be found somewhere over the rainbow, it doesn't matter if you are five or seventy five, just remember to always remain young at heart so you too can be transported into a land of dreams where you leave all your problems behind you. 

All aboard!

 

 

A Slow Saturday so thought I'd revisit this classic Lionel Super-O layout again.

It remains my all time favorite Lionel layout.  The basement room too!  Check out the Lionel 57 catalog shown at the edge of the bar table.

A pity Lionel didn't expand the Super-O product line.

Any Lionel experts who know the reason why Lionel didn't continue producing Super-O, please post now.

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