I don’t know about you but this pic reminds me of Jackie Gleason’s character Reggie van Gleason the third in his top hat and tails.Whenever he would want a martini he would press a button and out would come a model train to deliver it to him.Never failed to get a big laugh from the audience.[swg]
Where are the rails? [:S][:^)][*-)]
The “Great One” had Lionel trains, not anything like the pic - and he didn’t drink Pepsi, and of course the modern style can was 35-40 years in the future…
I need one that brings me pop too[:D]
It reminds me of a 4-4-0 with a Pepsi can in its tender…[:|]
Ya gotta be a certain age to appreciate this I guess, your all just kids to me.[^]
The rails are up next after I lay down the rail bed.[:D]
Actually I’m old enough to remember Reginald Van Gleason III. As I recall the martini glass was on a separate car, not on the tender, and the engine was I think a “modern” steam engine.
“Booze is swell with Lionel!!” was Gleason’s ad-lib…which at first horrified Joshua Cowan I guess, until later he was convinced it was a great publicity boost for Lionel.
Jackie Gleason didn’t fly, and his regular trips to Florida via train were legendary - a non stop party from New York to Miami! He loved his trains!
Don’t need 'em. It is a static layout. [(-D][(-D][(-D]
Now I know why riding old trains is so rough… [D)] [D)] [D)] [D)]
I remember watching Jackie Gleason in his Reginald Van Gleason role in reruns during the 60’s and 70’s.
There was one fellow up here who had his G scale railroad equipped with flatbed trailers to haul picnic supplies to where they would have their picnics
Where is your MASK, John? and what have you done with Tonto?
/Lone