Mt St Helens blew in 1980. Not long after that Dan Olson in Seattle put out a "Mt St Helens hopper" There were grey painted or maybe unpainted 3 bay flyer hoppers he had from the flyer closeout sale days. He had a black and red image of the mountain blowing on the side with the date of eruption and included a medicine type pill bottle full of actual ash with them. I have seen the Flyer S and Lionel O varities he still has. I don't know how many he made. I do know there were a number of "seconds" (10 or so) that had broken steps and such that made their way to a now deceased friend of mine which he assembled and sold. I think Dan sold these for something in the $18-$25 range in the 80's.
Eric Reis Kenmore, Wa. On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:18:25 -0600 "Marty.Thorin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Mt. St. Helens hopper?!?! > > Can someone please tell me more? > > Thorin > > Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:26:02 EST > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: looking > > Would like to purchase the Mt. St. Helens > hopper put out many years ago. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > S-Trains list sponsor: > http://www.americanflyertrains.com > All the Flyer you desire...books and > accessories too! > > To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
