1950 O scale / kit bash / tin plate conversions movie ...beautiful color

Hi thanks for the cool movie.

i have always had a fondness for conversions and heritage O scale (2 rail) footage.

not even outside third rail! 

i liked the stop action car and truck movements.  Takes a tremendous amount of work to produce that. Glad Gumby and Poky weren't part of it!

I recognized quite a bit of former Lionel and those early passenger cars.

i also thought the track work was exceptional for the day, probably scratch built.

the trains ran well.

erector bridges are quite a sight.

so, the kind of slow pace was relevant for the 50's.  nice to visit that for a few minutes.

leroof.

Some of those Lobaugh rolling stock such as the Roma Wine tanker?

I enjoyed the fire scene as it reminded me of the volunteer fire department in the town we lived in for awhile.  Their MO was to allow the building to burn to the ground, just made sure surrounding structures didn't catch fire.  

Overall the film was well done.

Well done. 

I'm 71.  I really enjoyed this.  My dad & I in the early 1960's, when I was a young teen, tried stop animation.  He loved math, so he went about figuring out how far I would move vehicles and people for each frame that he would click off of his new 8mm camera.  After things were set up, we spent 90 minutes worth of filming under hot lights, to get 15 seconds to watch.  I wanted to see a long movie & was surprised to see only 15 seconds.  It sure was a lot of work but a lot of fun to watch!

Dennis