Reply to "Untouched Layout For 45+ Years. Anything Worth Anything?"

brwebsterOGR Forum Member

I'm glad this got reopened as I wasn't around here when it was originally posted.

This is the type of collecting material I find fascinating. Far more interesting than some unobtainium factory variation of PW Lionel. Primitive, or not so primitive 2 rail has a sentimental value to me. It reminds me of a brief, yet impressionable experience with the Toronto Model Railroad Club back in the '70's.

Just speculating here, but whenever I hear of the unearthing of slumbering collectibles where the original owner passed away a half century ago, there's usually a common reason. The Vietnam war. Many a young man never returned alive and many parents saved such things as their sons cars or crafts as a memorial. It might sound a bit morbid but it seems more likely than any of our better halves keeping our junk for 50 years.

Bruce

5/13/167:22 PM

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