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Reply to "Alfred Carlton Gilbert - A Truly Talented Man Even Without the Electric Trains!"

When I was a young lad, my next door neighbors would leave various Erector set components under our back porch. Their son was grown and a West Point graduate. I had so many girders and other parts, since he must have had one large set or a couple of smaller sets? I even had two motors, and was able to build an operating elevator with all square girder construction! I also built a working drawbridge with square girders! I was very grateful to this nice Dutch couple for the extra Erector parts! The husband was a retired tug boat captain, who had worked in New York Harbor. My association with Gilbert products ran pretty deep with my AF trains, chemistry sets and Erector in my youth, and I am grateful to Mr. Gilbert for the great FUN I had with them!

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