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Hi Pete and all,
My brain is flooded with Saturday morning TV shows and they weren't all
run of the mill control room crap either. Just to name a couple of the
best live hosts to grace the little B&W screen, "Officer" Joe Bolton
hosted The Little Rascals and Ray "The Merry Mailman" Heatherton (Yes,
Joey's father!) was another but I remember the man, not the show. The
channels were WNEW 5, WOR 9 and WPIX 11 all independents at the time and
having excellent management had excellent programming any hour of the day
or night except when they broadcast a test pattern or shut down for
serious transmitter work. Remember the days when there was nothing on
late at night?
Getting back to trains, Lionel was the affordable one but I didn't like
the third rail at all. (I like the L on my vintage J-38 straight key
though.) Atlas however is very realistic right out of the box aside from
blanks you can hand paint but awfully expensive, none of the neighborhood
kids had anything like them and Marklin was totally unheard of. Funny how
much later in life I got a job as a diesetter for Atlas Tool Company in
Hillside and found myself making model trains. THIS is the famous Atlas
company? You bet! By then Lionel had gone out of Newark, for that matter
even civilization left town.
Can't think of other European imports/replicas besides John Bull, must be
a Senior moment. FB on looking up Big Boy but no matter what you dig up
nothing and I mean NOTHING even comes close to walking around one and
climbing up into the cab. Standing on the footplate looking over the
backhead you feel so tiny and insignificant... sort of like Mickey
Rooney. (;->) Back when they were in service I was in the cabs of GG-1s,
EMD F Series, Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse Diesels and countless MP-54 EMUs
but nothing awed me like that UP Big Boy.
73 de Warren
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