Picking up from the LotW Nov. 11-18 thread that began discussing Train Miniature, here's another of the company's ads...
I believe the Train Miniature of Illinois is the second life for the company. The original company HQ was La Mesa, CA as seen in their ads. I wanna say the TM of Illinois hits around 1980, but I will look through magazines to confirm. Tony Cook HO-Scale Trains Resource http://ho-scaletrains.net
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Hey Tony Thanks for the memories! In my youth I started with Tyco but quickly switched to Roundhouse, Athern, and Train Miniature and seeing these vintage ads brought back many a fine memory of building and running these kits. I really liked the billboard series of Train Minitures and vividly remember a wine car set of three that had early to new style cars, my favorite car being a garish purple modern that got alot of attention from my friends and adults. I also remember a Libbys billboard that was pushing an add slogan about that time. These kits were so much more entertaing than the RTR Tycos of the time as they took a little skill which personalized my railroad with a toothy ten years olds grin "I Built That" Something about building it gave it more ownership and more aditional license to crow about it.
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Yep.....memories....I remember driving a truck for the family business back in the early 80s'...I used to stop at this one place in Chicago..somewhere on the SW side....a lunchcounter/greezy spoon diner...the wife and the daughter served lunch...and the old man sold trains in the back room....I could kill 3 birds with one stone....get paid for drivin...eat, and buy trains all at the same time...I remember buyin a 3 car TM set from that guy once...3 C&EI hoppers...2 bay...each a different color black, BCR and gray....3 diff numbers..wish I still had 'em
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