The PX in the Yakota airbase in Japan was putting toy trains out yesterday...Don Thompson PS Go to any rail museum on Thomas the Tank Engine Day and you can see that the hobby is hugh among little kids...
On Nov 11, 2012, at 9:51 AM, John Degnan wrote: > [Attachment(s) from John Degnan included below] > > Based on my findings at a variety of retail stores over the last few weeks... > these (see attachments) being found yesterday at Target... trains, in some > form or another, appear to be making, or trying to make a comeback. I can > remember, as far back as the late '70s and very early '80s, seeing a variety > of brands of train sets from manufacturers such as AHM, LifeLike and Bachmann > on the shelves at nearly every store I ventured into... and even a fair > assortment of accessories for them (bridges, telephone poles, styrofoam > tunnels, structures, etc), but I haven't seen much of such for many years... > haven't even seen many of these no-particular-scale type trains on the > shelves. But over the past year I have started noticing more stuff like this > AND even a resurgence in the HO scale train stuff... am even seeing some > Woodland Scenics stuff on the shelves at some stores. > > Could it be that our hobby is NOT as doomed as it may appear to some, > including me from time to time? > > > John Degnan > [email protected] > [email protected] > >
