Give that man a cigar! And that’s the original Shop-Rite logo from 1946. It’s also the reason I chose 1946 as the locomotive number.
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The Train Barn, Kalamazoo MI
The shop’s 3,000 square foot 3-rail O gauge layout was featured in the November 1997 issue of Classic Toy Trains magazine. According to page 30 of the June 2003 issue of MR magazine, a woman wrote a marriage proposal on a caboose as it ran on the layout, and the proposal ended up marrying a regular customer.
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Aw, now WHO doesn’t love a good love story? Especially when the pair share a common interest?
“The couple that chugs together hugs together!” Or something. 
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The couple that choo-choos together woos together?
– I’ll see myself out…
[ir could have been worse – ‘caboose’ rhymes with ‘woos’…]
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AMF Bowling
Lionel 40’ boxcar stock#5-8512 released in 1975
Of the two underfloors in the photo, the one at the back is an Athearn product. Lionel copied the mistake too.
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Palisades Park
MTH Electric Trains item#81-74018 US$19.95 released in Jun. 2011
The intention behind the release of this model, which was not listed in the catalogue, is unclear. At the same time, a 3-rail O gauge RailKing brand model was also released.
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Del Monte
Tyco(brown box) stock#361-B released in 1974 62’ boxcar (60’ insulated boxcar)
This logo appears to have been used from 1960-1984.
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“You’ll never know how great a kiss can feel 'till you stop at the top of the Ferris Wheel!”
Why did Mister Mike put out a Palisades Park car? For all those folks from the area who remember! And I’m sure they sold VERY well. There’s two different MTH Pal Park cars and I’ve got both.
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The real Palisades Park song was "Come On Over!’
Shows and dance, singer free
So’s the parking, so gee… (all the time I was growing up I thought they were saying ‘cheap’…)
If I remember correctly it was the first pool so large it had ocean waves in it. That’s in the song too…
Had one of my early birthdays there, in the very early Sixties. The thing I remember to this day was my father stripping $20s off a roll, repeatedly, for ride tickets…
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"Ride the coaster get cool in the waves of the pool! You’ll have fun!
“So come on over!”
Remember this?
“Skip the bother and skip the fuss! (BEEP-BEEP!) Take a Public Service Bus!”
“Public Service is really great they drop you right off at the gate!”
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Pepsi-Cola
Tyco (brown box) stock#361-F released in 1974
This logo appears to have been used from 1973-1991
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Chiquita
Tyco 62’ double-plug door Express Reefer Car stock#360-D catalogued in 1973
This logo appears to have been used from 1970-1987.
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Toy Train Operating Society 1966
Athearn 50’ mechanical reefer w/o fuel tanks
TTOS was launched in 1966.
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Spring Creek Model Trains
Kadee PS-2 2003 cuft covered hopper stock#20002025
The model arrived at my home in Japan yesterday. It took 11 days to ship.
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You got one! I love that store!
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The Hobby Industry of America, HIA
Bev-Bel Corp./CTC (China Train Corporation) Hong Kong, 50’ Insulated boxcar
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Los Angeles Model Hobby Show
Mantua 40’ steel reefer
Hand-marked on the box is “LA Model Hobby Show, Pomona 3/8-11/1990.”
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National Model and Hobby Show 1999
Athearn 40’ slide-door boxcar
The year’s show was held from Oct. 28th to 31st. The featured products are reported in the Feb. 2000 issue of MR magazine, pages 52-53.
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(That’s “Mr. Yuk” who is the Reddy Kilowatt of poison control, developed in Pittsburgh in 1971… Mr. Yuk – Washington Poison Center)
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