1950 ish "Teacher's Kit"

Tom,

I never heard, or saw the 'RR' teaching aid, you post of, which sounds interesting, but then again, I always liked trains, real, or model, as a kid and even now.

I'm curious to know, you mention how you RR kids would always weave trains into any school project.

Were you kids, children of RR employees and/or lived near RR trackage?

Also, were you a Boy Scout and involved in the "B.S.A. 'RR' Modeling Badge?"

Thank you,

Ralph

Wow, I just noticed that, all the lettering has been blanked out.  However they left the striping and blanked out heralds intact.  The last page does have a collection of a hundred or so RR logos.  I remember from one of my reports that there were aprox 165 railroads in the mid fifties. 

Being a kid in the fifties every boy was into trains!  W/O exception.  Even if it was a Marx, don't think I knew of a buddy who did not have a train set of some kind.

We grew up, make that older,  got into the hot rods of the 60's and you know the rest of the story..........

Here in the Northeast part of the US, RR employment was a major demographic category.  Part of what is thought to go into the dense involvement of children of the era.

I remember talking to Ed Boyle about OGR circulation data,  Same thing,  Very heavy Northeast concentration.  Trickles down to the location of the majority of train shows.  This it Railroad Territory!   Check out the US maps of RR tracks.

So yes, I could say that we all lived near the tracks.  Not that there was any option.  Tracks were everywhere. 

Did not get involved in the BSA.  One of those things I would want to pursue in a "Do Over".

My late, great aunt was a school teacher. Knowing how much I liked trains when I was a kid, she gave me her packet of train pictures when she retired. Haven't looked at it in years. Guess it's time to get it out and look through the pictures and maybe even remember some memories of Aunt Helen.

This sounds interesting, but what exactly was this supposed to teach?

Michael, the stated purpose on the cover was "Railroad Transportation".  I believe it did a very good job in it's day considering the venue of providing an insight to the uninformed of what goes on in railroad service.

Something like a loose leaf version of a generic coffee table railroad book of recent times.

In the era when these were used, these taught students about the railroads in wartime America. Each of the photographs pictured how different industries used the railroads. There are photos of Troop Trains. In the day, television was a toy of the very wealthy. There should be a teacher's packet with all the photos. The teacher's packet explained how the material was to be taught. If the OP is lucky, there should be a Teacher's name & signature. 

I have this exact kit. Many of the photos are outstanding, showing all the type of steam and diesels in action. I may even have a few framed.

Thanks for the information guys!

    Tom Tee I was watching Discovery, History channel (?) about trains A while back and heard A stat that PA had 90 different rail lines at one time. Sorry for getting off the topic. Choo Choo Kenny