Dear Fellow Trainees:
Many of you who are about my age (58) may recall this magazine of our youth. Within its pages, one of the many well, highlights that I can recall, is something called "What's wrong with this picture?"
As many times as I look at the old Postwar catalogs, the more things I find, well, NOT EXACTLY.
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The back page of the 1957 Lionel catalog is a good example. Why they did use their new Super-O track is beyond me. Irregardless, which I know is not a word, you will find at least two glaring errors here. First is the placement of the #3927 Track Cleaning Car by the three bumpers in the bottom right of the drawing. As we know, the coupler is only on one end, and it is facing the bumper. How would this item ever be towed out of this spur? Oops.
Then the most tsk tak moment: the trestle near the ZW, is actually sitting right on the track! Major OOPS.
I was looking at the 1959 and 1960 catalogs when I found something that was totally foreign to me. A Super-Uh Oh moment.
Who can tell me which item was drawn totally wrong, not even close?
Bob Mintz
Clue: 1959 was the first year that it was made.
