Based on my findings at a variety of retail stores over the last few weeks... these (see attachments) being found yesterday at Target... trains, in some form or another, appear to be making, or trying to make a comeback. I can remember, as far back as the late '70s and very early '80s, seeing a variety of brands of train sets from manufacturers such as AHM, LifeLike and Bachmann on the shelves at nearly every store I ventured into... and even a fair assortment of accessories for them (bridges, telephone poles, styrofoam tunnels, structures, etc), but I haven't seen much of such for many years... haven't even seen many of these no-particular-scale type trains on the shelves. But over the past year I have started noticing more stuff like this AND even a resurgence in the HO scale train stuff... am even seeing some Woodland Scenics stuff on the shelves at some stores.
Could it be that our hobby is NOT as doomed as it may appear to some, including me from time to time? John Degnan [email protected] [email protected]
