Reply to "It's December. Let's talk about our holiday train store experiences, especially as we started in the hobby...."

redjimmy1955OGR Forum Member

Hey Peter........you offer a most excellent topic! My best Holiday train experience was mom and dad taking the three of us to nearby Chicago, Ill to visit Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Marshall Fields...maybe Sears(?), and other stores that had large Lionel and probably A Flyer layouts. Of course there was/is a layout at the Museum of Science and Industry. My wonderful cousins gave up their Lionel trains to us kids when we were about 7 or 8 years old. Never seen trains come out of Schlitz and Old Style beer boxes before.....!!! I only remember a Baby Ruth boxcar with brown doors....and a Loco having 1666 on its side. Oh yes....we had three gigantic gatemen.....my brother and I glued rifles in his hand...mom wasn't pleased!

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