Midwest Monday

@Don McErlean posted:
Well here we are in "Midwest Monday" but there seems to have been no postings since @DETROIT posted last Tuesday ! So here I go bucking the trend and trying to keep our "day of the week" thread going. I will admit that I like to post to these and look at the other postings its grand fun.
Today, I am sticking close to home and posting a car that has strong links to our current state of residence, Texas. Wait a minute you ask, Texas isn't in the mid west? Oh no...well in fact Waco, Texas where we live is certainly in the west and it could not get too much more "mid" than to be here. Waco is 1125 miles West of Savannah, Georgia and the Atlantic ocean and 1335 miles East of San Diego and the Pacific ocean. We are 179 miles North of the key location for this car...the "Alamo" in San Antonio the site of the famous battle in the Texas war for independence. So I am going to define (at least for today) that Texas is in the "mid-west".
This car was the registration car for the LCCA convention in Dallas, Texas in 2011 which I attended. It really is an excellent car, very robust and quite well decorated. It carries the number 1836 which is in fact the year of the battle of the Alamo.
So Midwest Monday fans, here is the Lionel Alamo remembrance car (i.e the famous battle cry..."Remember the Alamo").
For reasons I am not sure about, the picture below seems to render the car in grey...that is just the photo. The color is much closer to the two earlier pictures, sort of a very light brown or even cream.
The cannon window and the decoration showing the dates of the famous battle. The flag is the Texas state flag..."The Lone Star State".
The ammunition. Note the picture in the upper left is of the actual building, the Alamo was a Spanish mission which was already a partial ruin and inactive from a religious standpoint in 1836. Today it has been restored, so to speak, to its condition in 1836 and stabilized from environmental damage. The little circle in the lower left says..."Registration and 11 in the middle".
Well I hoped you enjoyed this visit to what I have defined as the "middle" west
Best wishes for a great week
Don