@Dennis Holler posted:I recently got nstalgic and dug out some of my childhood ho trains that still exist. ... You can see the AHM MDT SF switcher on the back of the layout ...I
I had AHM, Rivarossi, Tyco, and Cox HO cars and locos in the early to mid 70s. Many I bought at Two Guys department store. I think the freight cars were about $1 and the 0-4-0 docksider and MDT Switcher were maybe $3.99? Good times. Sadly I abused them and there were few that survived the trauma in one piece. The running gear on the B&O 0-4-0 and the Reading MDT Switcher were destroyed, yet I kept them all these years. In the last year and a half I dusted off the HO layout that was last worked on circa 1994 and have memorialized these engines as "background locos" in a yard. Half of each engine's shell is glued to the backboard and the destroyed missing wheels are hidden by a Chooch Enterprises stone wall.
John
