In the 1990's a "famous" model rairoader died in his sleep. I knew he was
off in never never land as he would call us every month for a list of each
railroad car we released, the stock numbers, and if we ran any special runs
for any distributors. This in the days we were printing 3500 to 5000
railroad cars a month. We printed them in 504 lots.

When his family found him, he had in his house over 35,000 railroad cars, no
duplicates. He also helped author a book on collecting Model Railroad cars.
It as similar to Jim's book on collecting Studebaker toys. It included dates
they were released, the varences in road numbers and any special size
differences in logos or reporting marks. What startled everyone was he had a
railroad that was what they call a shelf railroad. It was built out from
each wall and ran the entire house. I am not talking living and dining, I am
talking thru every room, laundry, bathrooms etc. Beer cans I CAN SEE,
collecting HO scale plastic cars, that is DUMB.

BG

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