@DriverD Trains #2.b - Railroader's Journey Bonus Materials
00:00 Welcome to Driver D trains. Thanks for stopping by! I’m your host Driver D. Our conductor and brakeman, Scratchy-C, is currently off inspecting the train.
[Meow.]
This video includes lots of bonus materials that didn’t make it into my last video, A Model Railroader’s Journey, as well as links to a number of websites that I found during my research into postwar Lionel, Marx, and HO scale locomotives. If you haven’t already had a chance to watch that video, please check it out. It’s filled with lots of great postwar, 60s, and 70s nostalgia.
[Please see the video transcript for the complete text of the video! Below you will find links to the websites I mention in the video. Enjoy! DD]
01:35 Lionel in the 1960s
The Lionel Trains Library has a complete listing of Lionel sets from 1945 through 1969.
www.postwarlionel.com
You can find a brief history of Lionel Trains on the company’s website.
www.lionel.com/articles/timeline/
The Tandem Associates website features lists and indexes of all different kinds of Lionel products, from track and transformers, to locomotives and rolling stock.
www.tandem-associates.com
The Authoritative Guide to Lionel’s Promotional Outfits 1960-1969, is an 850 page book that lists over 700 promotional outfits manufactured between those years.
projectroar.com/
projectroar.com/content/sampl...
There’s a nice review of the book on the Train Collectors Association website.
www.tcatrains.org/etrain/auth...
When I was 3 my father got a Tudor Electric Football game for Christmas. Tudor still sells its officially licensed NFL Electric Football game.
tudorgames.com
06:28 Holiday Wishbooks
Christmas.musetechnical.com currently boasts 291 holiday catalogs from Sears, Montgomery Ward, and J.C. Penny from 1940 through 2017.
christmas.musetechnical.com
07:56 Museum Railroad
One of the places where I did see model trains as child was the California Museum of Science and Industry in downtown Los Angeles, which had a 500-foot long O-scale layout running behind glass along the perimeter of the upstairs transportation gallery.
I found a discussion of the museum on the O-gauge Railroading Forum.
ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/c...
There's a great article about the museum that appeared in the long-gone hobby magazine, Great World of Model Railroading. You may still be able to find the issue on the Trainlife.com website, although TrainLife closed in May 2023.
magazine.trainlife.com/wp-con...
Kansas City Union Station's 8000 square foot Model Train Gallery is open daily from 10 am to 5 pm.
unionstation.org/model-train-...
11:24 The Switch to HO
15:41 Timesaver
You can purchase a PDF package of articles about the timesaver from Model Railroader.
kalmbachhobbystore.com/produc...
Wymann.info has lots of great information about different types of switching puzzles, or shunting puzzles as the British call them, and carendt.com, which features track plans for several different variants of the Timesaver.
www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzle...
www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzle...
www.carendt.com/micro-layout-...
There is a Timesaver app available on the iOS App Store for the iPhone and iPad. There’s a Lite version you can try out for free if you like.
apps.apple.com/us/app/john-al...
apps.apple.com/us/app/john-al...
Railroad switching puzzles remind me a bit of the 15 puzzle, that 4 by 4 square of 15 tiles with one missing that you have to slide around to put in the correct order. I was surprised that I couldn’t find a picture of a train-themed version of a 15 puzzle, but I did find a website where you can make your own. Ruwix.com.
ruwix.com/online-puzzle-simul...
18:32 That’s All I Have…
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19:57 Credits
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