Wow, the first item in the catalog brings back some memories. The 16 sq ft layout was my first layout. My older brother got to set up his trains at Xmas on the Ping Pong table. I got to set my styrofoam layout on a table next to his. But by 1976, My Tyco took over the big table, and the crumbling styrofoam was "retired."
I still have the houses, dripping with dry glue, in a box with my stuff. I sold the train set a few years back on ebay. That was a noisy runner, even on the "quiet" trackbed they advertised. I liked the Tyco stuff way better than life-like even back then.
Great stuff. Really brings back some fun memories.
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Speaking of those styrofoam layouts, I have one still in the box upstairs in the attic,but this one is in one piece. All the other ones I have seen are two separate pieces. Also the one I have has the track allready mounted to it. Any idea when this oddball was made?
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I had that styrofoam layout too! Mine came from Toys R Us in the mid-80's. I remember thinking even then that it was odd to have a whole town sunk into a bowl, with no real access in our out...
...of course this was before I really had any true concept of "West Virginia" (or Eastern Kentucky for that matter) [:P]
Wouldn't mind haveing one of those N scale versions though. That would be kinda neat.Edited by - GoingInCirclez on December 06 2007 11:47:20 PM
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Toys R Us used to have a nice selection of trains during the 80`s. There was a Toys R Us near the Century 3 mall outside of Pittsburgh ( Scmich probly knows the name of the town ) I used to go to and they had all those styrofoam sets . One year my parents said they went to buy one and they were all out . They must have been hot sellers during xmas. The one I always had my eye on was the 1 peice set with a Chessie System GP-38-2 and a few cars with a caboose. A lone amature built the ark! A large group of professionals built the titanic!
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