@rrman posted:Seeing all these posts recalling Sears stores, did Sears at least larger ones have a trainland in their toylands, or was it up to store managers to decide ya or na???
Growing up in Pittsburgh I do not recall seeing trains in their toy section at Christmas season, but then I didn't visit every Sears in area.
Both the Sears in downtown Chicago and the Homan Avenue store (and distribution warehouse) had large train departments during the Christmas holidays.
For several years, the Homan Avenue store had a huge Lionel mural of the front of a Hudson with a freight train behind coming off a curve. One year, it was even animated where the locomotive front rocked slightly and a conveyor of track and ties rolled under it. I vividly recall watching it in amazement.
Rusty
