1976 LIONEL MODEL TRAINS PROMOTIONAL FILM w/ PLASTICVILLE ACCESSORIES 10304
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This 1976 Lionel promotional film presents a lyrical look at model railroading, and includes footage of the Lionel Rocket Launching Pad, the premier "Space Age" accessory that Lionel produced from 1958 until 1960. Lionel is an American toy manufacturer which had been founded in 1900. Their major claim to fame was their high quality toy locomotives and model railway accessories, including animated accessories shown in the film. The film opens with footage of the large toy railroad layout which includes Plasticville model industrial areas, towns and steel mills. O scale Lionel trains ride ceaselessly around the track (:52). A Western Pacific rail car (1:18). Other toy trains have Chesapeake and Ohio printed on their sides (1:34). The Pace Maker Freight Service cars carry and deliver cargo (2:14). The trains are seen crossing intersections marked with tiny appropriate street and rail signs (3:01). A Canadian Pacific rail car is viewed (3:42). Trains cut through tunnels carved into toy mountains (4:16). One locomotive takes a pit stop at a toy lumber mill and loads up with timber (5:15). A black Lionel rail car ejects its log load (5:24). The plastic toy logs are fed into a machine to be shredded (5:31). A rail line conductor zooms in and out of a railway station to check on one of the locomotives (5:50). Steel cylinders roll down onto a conveyor belt (5:57). A fork lift moves stacks of lumber removing some from the top of the pile (6:12). Green Lionel rail cars zoom by (6:28). From inside of a factory, a worker sets out yellow containers (6:42). A railway conductor moves back and forth across a board presenting arrivals and departures of the trains (7:41). A police car whips by with its alarm ringing out (8:25). A rail car filled with coal (8:52) is seen emptying its load (8:56). Coal is then loaded into a Lehigh Valley rail car (9:10). A plastic pedestrian grabs a newspaper from a Lionel news stand (9:14). Coal is delivered up and into the mill (9:29). As a crane swings back and forth over an industrial yard (10:16) a tune is heard about trains. The film turns to nighttime over the railway (10:28). Nuclear waste is shown being moved on railroad cars. Missiles launch and hit other rail cars, causing them to crack open (12:07). A Minuteman Missile concealed in a box car is seen being raised (12:19). A countdown is heard as a US Navy missile prepares to be launched from the Lionel Rocket Launching Pad (12:23). Equipment moves towards the missile (12:29). As a finger presses the launch button (13:00) the film switches to footage of an actual US Navy missile launching. Toy missiles are also launched (13:06) and the film concludes with shots of celebratory fireworks (13:16).
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Excellent video.
It also made me feel patriotic about my Lionel trains.
Stupid youtube AI muting the music in this video. This was a silent archived documentary of toy trains in the 70s.
Cuz the copyright ok
F*ck You UA-cam why!!!
Why did he do that?!
Lionel is good; but I think American Flyer was better. My grandfather had an S gauge layout and the reason why he preferred American Flyer was that it was more realistic with the two rail rather than Lionel's three railed system.
Still, a great film.
I had 3 or 4 kinds of gauges. Doesn’t matter what they were.
There is some fine memories watching that film.
I always think of Gary Coleman (RIP) when I see Lionel Trains and/or train sets-models in general.
1976? postwar trains though , but SWEEEEET
I remember the Bosco operating milk car. I loved Bosco chocolate milk when I was a kid and my dad bought the operating accessory for his old gauge layout in the basement. I once ran one of his engines off the train table and broke the cow catcher off and for 50 years never owned up to it. When he died my brother bought the small remnants of what he had left and gave it to me and the engine with the broken pilot was there. I took the box to a train guy to fix them up but I thought he was going to use the broken one for parts but he just oiled it up and it ran as good as new. Try running a modern electronic late in Lionel engine off a train table see what happens. I had one of my Williams engines fall off the train table and it did break off The Horn could never find the horn they gave me a whole new body shelf for free. Thanks for shaking the dust off a memory.
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@@PeriscopeFilm how come you muted the song?
Some great memories seeing cars from railroads that no longer exist
Excellent!!! That was like watching the early 1960s Lionel Catalogs I had/read/completely wore out when I was in 2nd grade come to life!!! Mind Blown!!!! Thank You so, so much!!!!!
Neat! It’s amazing how little the (external) tooling has changed on some of Lionel’s models.
It would have been great if Lionel trains ever really sounded like that, but most of what were hear are prototype railroad sounds that were used as a soundtrack. I was never more disappointed than when I got my first Lionel and all it did was make toy sounds going down the rails.
YES! Lionel!
The accessories provided play value but if you told the kid he had to load the gondola full of pipe for 8 hours straight he wouldn't find it fun anymore because then it goes for being fun to work and work is never fun. As you look at the locomotive you can see the gradual cheapening as handrails are left off and the portholes are plugged instead of having inserts, I never knew why certain cabooses had the brake wheel on the wrong side and then I heard it was because it would scratch the paint so we had to put it on the wrong side. Lionel Man toy trains not fishing gear not record players not any of the other crap that they got into that bankrupted the company. Old man Cohen should have given the company to his son and maybe Lionel might not have lost its way. And Lionel was a profitable company for General Mills to own for like 20 years. And then it got sold 10 times in 10 years. You can get nice old cars with diecast trucks cheap and you can get NPC brand new in the box almost for suggested retail. When I run a train with an American-made Weaver locomotive and MPC and Weaver cars and a weaver caboose I just love to have an American train running on my layout that's not an antique. I wish someone had taken over for Weaver I missed his line of trains but he retired so what can you do.
Awesome
👍👍
Pretty cool 😎😎