My first 'AF set' came with about 45' of Bob Peare track and 1 turnout and a few pieces of HO flex. Forever and ever I thought there was another turnout that got lost in an attic closet because a turnout was soldered to another track. I was probably in error and the one had probably broken of due to solder fatigue. I didn't know about AF track for a long time and thought Bob Peare was the norm.
I used to have dreams finding the track at hobby shops only to be disappointed. I attempted my first turnout in middle school shop class by trying to copy the one just to get a crossing pair. One day in highschool the local HS had 15 feet for sale. That was the only stuff I found until I started going to flea markets after grad school. Ben Trousdale --- In S-Scale@yahoogroups.com, Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote: > > Very interesting catalog. I'm surprised how many employees the firm had > at the time. I think Branch Line Models in Memphis sold the Peare line > of 172 flex track well into the 60's. On two occasions while on family > vacation in the Black Hill of my home state, I visited a very tiny hobby > shop that was about 10' wide. Being in the years of junior high school, > I wasn't very knowledgeable, but I was always looking for anything S. I > asked the owner/clerk about S as I didn't see any AF boxes on the > shelves. His eyes lit up as he opened one of several boxes of S scale > turnouts with the Peare label on them. Of course, I'd never seen such a > thing, so back on the shelf they went. A couple years later, they were > still there. I wonder how in the world, a hobby shop in the sparsely > populated South Dakota would end up with 4 turnouts and nothing else in > the scale. I think the hobby shop was called Who's Hobby in Rapid City. > > Jack Troxell, has the complete set of Bob's work cars on display shelf > in his house. I've never asked him why they were never on his layout. > > Bob Werre > PhotoTraxx.com > > > > On 6/12/11 10:25 AM, sscale@... wrote: > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know more about these? I want to sell them but > > don't know enough about them. > > I found this: > > http://www.sscalenews.com/downloads/bobpeare1952.pdf > > Stan > > Stokrocki > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: s-scale-dig...@yahoogroups.com s-scale-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: s-scale-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
