Reply to "Captain Kangaroo and Lionel Trains"

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@Jim Berger posted:
I don't remember captain kangaroo so much. In the Cleveland, Ohio tv market in the 1960's we had captain penny on a local channel. Dressed in a train engineers gear,he had a moderate size Lionel layout I always looked for. It was a great time to grow up in.....

Captain Penny with his engineers hat and jacket was a Cleveland icon. His show opened with a Lionel train running then he would climb down from his locomotive swinging his lantern (actually a step ladder). He came to Hobby House in 1959 to hand out catalogs one Sunday before Christmas. The train set was acquired by one of the channel 5 directors and made its way to Jim Berilla's Trading Post. Its ran there for many years. Don't know what happened to it when the store was liquidated.

Lou N

1/2/2111:36 AM

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