Electric trains were high on any boy's Christmas list during the Fifties and Sixties and Sears sold the finest. This neat book contains full-sized authorized reproductions of every catalog page of toy trains sold by Sears from 1950 through 1969. Organized by year, the best and rarest are illustrated: Lionel, Marx, American Flyer, Tyco and Revell trains and accessories. in all gauges. Includes all the original selling prices too! "Must Have" for any collector.
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Thomas W. Holland is a Los Angeles-based television executive and long time electric train and toy collector.
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This review is from: The Toy Train Department: Electric Train Catalog Pages from the Legendary Sears Christmas Wishbooks of the 1950's and 1960's (Paperback)
This book is filled with nostalgia. Great reprints of the Sears catalog pages over the years. See Lionel, American Flyer, Marx, Allstate...plus HO and N scale trains. You'll look at this again and again. Certainly brings back a lot of great memories.
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Trip back into time,
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This review is from: The Toy Train Department: Electric Train Catalog Pages from the Legendary Sears Christmas Wishbooks of the 1950's and 1960's (Paperback)
I bought this book to reminisce about my child hood - It is great for train collectors showing some of the Sears Wish Book train sets that were offered. I found this book very helpful with some of my old lonestar OOO (pre N Scale) collection.
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By 1950 Sears, Roebuck & Company's annual Christmas Wishbook catalog was already a fixture in most American homes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nylon trucks, plastic trestles, harmless white smoke, clockspring motor, uncoupler section, silver color bullets, uncoupler unit, manual switch set, plastic tender, gleaming headlamp, metal tender, piston rod action, steel shanty, track form oval, uncoupler form, electric couplers, missile launching car, realistic wail, fits waist sizes, wrecker caboose, operating crane car, operating lumber car, operating milk car, adjustable spout, controlling train speed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Easy Terms, Plastic Water Tower, Automatic Crossing Flasher, Lighted Revolving Beacon, Union Pacific, New Haven, Freight Terminal, Our Best, Roy Rogers, Christmas Wishbook, Magnetic Track Section, Remote Control Whistling Station, Scenic Express, Steam-type Freight, Automatic Banjo Signal, Interurban Car, James Bond, Operating Dump Car, Automatic Lumber Car, American Flyer, Automatic Barrel Loader, Automatic Semaphore, Electric Hand Car, Electric Switches, Illuminated Bumper New!
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By 1950 Sears, Roebuck & Company's annual Christmas Wishbook catalog was already a fixture in most American homes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nylon trucks, plastic trestles, harmless white smoke, clockspring motor, uncoupler section, silver color bullets, uncoupler unit, manual switch set, plastic tender, gleaming headlamp, metal tender, piston rod action, steel shanty, track form oval, uncoupler form, electric couplers, missile launching car, realistic wail, fits waist sizes, wrecker caboose, operating crane car, operating lumber car, operating milk car, adjustable spout, controlling train speed Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Easy Terms, Plastic Water Tower, Automatic Crossing Flasher, Lighted Revolving Beacon, Union Pacific, New Haven, Freight Terminal, Our Best, Roy Rogers, Christmas Wishbook, Magnetic Track Section, Remote Control Whistling Station, Scenic Express, Steam-type Freight, Automatic Banjo Signal, Interurban Car, James Bond, Operating Dump Car, Automatic Lumber Car, American Flyer, Automatic Barrel Loader, Automatic Semaphore, Electric Hand Car, Electric Switches, Illuminated Bumper New!
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- How to Build Your First Lionel Layout by Stanley W. Trzoniec in Back Matter
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell on page 113
- Home Fires: Stories (ISF) by David Long in Front Matter
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