Originally Posted by Mike McCutcheon:
I remember buying MPC Lionel items at Kmart and Caldor dept. stores in the 1970's. Then HO and N scale Life Like in the mid to late 80's at Kaybee toys.
In the early 1970's COOK'S dept stores carried a full line of Rapido N scale. It was just placed on the shelves in the toy dept. The turnouts came in little boxes....wonder how many walked out???