Believe it or not, it’s been a year since since I started posting these little brain teasers. At that time, I had roughly 40 puzzles made up and hoped that I’d have enough inspiration to at least stretch it out for 52 weeks. Of course, it was also intended as a bit of relief for the pandemic “stay at home order blues” we were all suffering from. Well, I’m happy to say that my total of prepared puzzles went from 40 to 66 during the last 12 months and since this one here is number 51, that means I can at least coast for awhile before I have to write anything new! Which is good because I’ve been busy packing up a lot of my resource material in preparation for an impending move. [;)]
As many of you know, I recently suffered an enourmous loss and I’m very, very grateful for all the kind words and prayers a lot of you have sent my way! [bow] I hope doing these again will help me discover a new sense of normalcy for my life and hopefully I can get to 100! [:D]
THE FORGOTTEN GAUGE
75 WORDS
BEWARE BACKWARDS ANSWERS
- (_ _ _ _ _ )-O. Most of us don’t ( _ _ _ _ _ ) it, but many of us would like to. But it’s not just a ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ) realm of collecting, it’s a little ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _) to some of us as well.
- Elliott (_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _) owned a (
Glad to see you back. I hope things are working out for you.
Thanks! “Best that I can” would be the best way of describing how it’s going. I’m trying to figure out how to become an apartment dweller, and possibly a studio apartment dweller at that. I’ll have to sell or (gulp) destroy about 90% of my stuff including trains. So 10% of my O and 90% of my standard gauge stay while all the G, S, HO & N plus a lot of magazines and catalogs have to go. But, what can ya do? Keep the best and make something new. [:)]
THE FORGOTTEN GAUGE
75 WORDS
BEWARE BACKWARDS ANSWERS
- (DOUBLE)-O. Most of us don’t (COLLECT) it, but many of us would like to. But it’s not just a (FORGOTTEN) realm of collecting, it’s a little (MYSTERIOUS) to some of us as well.
- Elliott (DONNELLEY) owned a (CHICAGO) based manufacturing company named (SCALECRAFT), and based on the OO entry in Tom (MCCOMAS) and James (TOUHY ‘ S) book on Standard Gauge, (LIONEL) may have (REVERSE)-engineered their OO (FREIGHT) cars from models they purchased.
- Quoting the book, “Donnelley always maintained that Lionel’s first cars were, as they say in the (DESIGN) business, ‘(KNOCK - OFFS)’.”
- How Lionel made it’s entry into OO (GAUGE) is a curiosity, but let’s focus instead on the (MODELS) since most evidence to their origins is hard to come by.
- There was only one (LOCOMOTIVE) in Lionel’s (PREWAR) double-O gauge line; the scale (HUDSON). There were, however, (FOUR) versions of that 4-6-4.
- The 001E, introduced in 1938, first included a miniature drawbar (PIN) with it’s own tiny (CHAIN). In 1939 the (DRAWBAR) design for the super-(DETAILED), (THREE)-rail version employed a (SPRING)-loaded pin which it would retain through 1942.
- Also in 1939, Lionel offered (TWO)-rail and (SEMI)-scale versions of the 001E. Besides the drawbar, and all of the locos being sol