A couple about to crash.....The one on the left is one my parents bought used at a church bazaar in the Chicago area in the early to mid '60s, and set up in the later '60s, when we lived in Muncie, a couple blocks south of the N&W, ex-Nickel Plate. The trains were boxed up when we moved from there in the early '70s (wrapped in copies of the NY Times with coverage of the Pentagon Papers court case).
Opened the boxes up about three years ago. Locomotive runs as well as could be expected, considering the abuse it received when I was a child - running it off the table in the basement to the concrete floor. It sort of wobbles and clanks along while pulling a few cars.
David
