Probably the last time you saw a train set on TV was the Adam's
Family. When I belonged to the railroad club at the U of I we always
had people wandering in and saying, "Wow man, can you make them crash
like on the Adam's Family?"
Mike M
Downers Grove IL
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On Sep 28, 2009, at 3:15 PM, david_f_pease wrote:
> I happen to catch the first episode of Fox's new TV show Brothers
> last night. There was a scene where one of the brothers goes to the
> basement rec room to talk to his father. It is a very impressive rec
> room. Most impressive of all is the father is running a train
> layout. How a 100 percent of my attention is on the layout. It
> appears to be O gauge. Nice looking. Now the camera angle changes
> to the front of the layout. And... HOLY ZEPHYR BATMAN! there is the
> Pioneer Zephyr! Now in the dialog the father is saying to the son.
> Look I have a limit addition Pioneer Zephyr, only 6 million made.
> Exact wording I don't remember, because by this time I had fallen
> out of my chair!
>
> Wow, I cannot rememder the last time I saw a train layout on a prime
> time TV show. And never the Pioneer Zephyr! There is a Santa Claus!
>
> David
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