kinda off topic - anyone remember this particular model train transformer?

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September 19, 2009, 1:33 am
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it is metal...and it is working.... so it's more on topic than the political
stuff.... I'm just wondering if anyone remembers this exact unit
specifically - I made a guess as to age, and I'm curious if I'm right - I
couldn't find any info on it on the web, and this group seems to be about as
knowlegable in weird stuff as anywhere - made in good old USA, with internal
construction techniques truely appropriate for a 4th world country - cheap
cheap cheap cheap - that's why I'm guessing right after or right before WWII

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Re: kinda off topic - anyone remember this particular model train transformer?



On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:33:33 -0700, "Bill Noble"


Sounds like an old HO gauge railroad power pack as they were called.
Dave Foreman

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Re: kinda off topic - anyone remember this particular model train transformer?



Design, graphics, and packaging look like 60's to me. The fact that it
is light gray rather than black or dark gray, thin handle with molded on
plastic knob are not seen until late 50's

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interesting - and it's possible - I did find the company advertizing in 1947
and 48 popular mechanics, but not that exact device - the reason
I am thinking 40s/50s is the use of the cotton covered wire and rubber
cord - by the 60s, it was (unless my memory is worse than I think it is) all
plastic wires.  the "plastic" handle is bakelite -- or at least it looks and
feels like bakelite --- so that is consistant with being quite a bit older



 

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