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Decggrs2020 (Pdf) Page 1 Georgia Garden Railway Society Dec 2020 GGRS Gazette December’s News President’s Message Trains at Christmas No one knows with certainty how the tradition of toy trains under the Christmas tree got started, but it probably started in the early 1900s. Since most children were more familiar with trains than automobiles at that time, toy train sets were popular requests for Christmas gifts. ? Christmas was a time when many people traveled long distances to reach home or to see relatives. Most of these journeys involved a train ride. Likewise, the nation's railroads were a primary means of transporting packages across the country at Christmastime. What time zone are you in......are you Between 1901 and 1950, the purchase sure? of a Name - brand electric train was a major expense that needed to be budgeted. What is more natural than What did Lionel originally sell? giving the most expensive toy you were ever going to buy as a Christmas What did John do next with his caboose? present? Who received the prestigious GGRS In 1891 the German toy company Railroader of the Year award? Marklin introduced, not just a toy train, but a toy train set. A complete Is TrainMaster really open for business? system including locomotive, cars and track all scaled to size. The idea was that this would be part of a line of toys to which accessories could be added; extra cars, different locomotives and miniature buildings. It turned out to be a real boon for Marklin as it encouraged buyers to come All these answered in this edition. back again and again to purchase more items to add to their tiny worlds. Very early train sets were made of soldered tinplate and were In This Edition driven by a windup mechanism which gave the operator little control over the engine and cars other than to crank the key President’s Message……...…..…..1 and let them roll. Still, they proved very popular and companies in Britain and the United States were soon Trains at Christmas...................1 building their own sets. Germany dominated the market until Gandy Dancers……………….........3 the onset of World War I. Track Warrants……………...........5 Southern X376 Caboose. Pt.7...6 In the United States the toy maker Ives was one of the first makers of toy train sets. These sets featured a windup - Highballing Down the Track...12 clockwork mechanism driving an engine and cars made of At the Depot..........................13 cast iron. Ives put together a successful advertising campaign Rip Track……….……..…...….......16 aiming at what they believed to be their target audience: 12 year-old boys. Yard Hostler………………..….…..23 Continued page 2 Official Newsletter of the Georgia Garden Railway Society - Find information about the Society at: www.ggrs.info Page 2 Georgia Garden Railway Society Dec 2020 Trains at Christmas (Cont.) Other toy inventors, however, were pondering how to get past the limits of the clockwork mechanism. In 1897 the U.S. company Carlisle & Finch started producing an electric toy train that ran off batteries. Strangely, the only other product produced by the company was a carbon arc search- light. The trains did well, but as the United States entered into World War I, the government forbade the company from producing the toys as Uncle Sam needed their business to concentrate on building spotlights for the war. After the conflict was over, Carlisle & Finch decided not to resume their toy train production. Today they remain a premier vendor for search lights and related equipment. In 1900 a new company was founded whose name would be forever associated with electric trains: Lionel. When Lionel Corporation was started by Joshua Lionel Cowen and Harry C. Grant in New York City it was not their intention to build toy trains. They saw the company as making a number of electric novelty devices, the first one being a fan. As part of an advertising ploy, Cowen took one of the fan motors and used it to power an electric train that ran on a battery. The idea was that a moving miniature train in a store window would draw attention to the other products. However, the store owners got more inquiries about buying the train than fans and Lionel soon added toy railways to their product line. Eventually it became their main business. Lionel electric trains became so popular that Ives was forced to come out with its own electric trains. By beginning of the 1920's, Lionel, Ives and another company, American Flyer, were battling it out for the biggest share of the U.S. electric toy train market. https://familychristmasonline.com/musings/trains_n_christmas/ trains_n_christmas.htm https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-do-people-put-toy- trains-under-christmas-trees https://www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2012/12/20/The- tradition-of-model-trains-beneath-the-Christmas-tree-may-have- started-in-Pennsylvania/stories/201212200370 http://www.unmuseum.org/xmas_trains.htm Page 3 Georgia Garden Railway Society Dec 2020 Gandy Dancers Highlighting Members and their work Theme for the Month - Holiday Railroads: Members were asked to send in photos of their ornaments, wreaths, table Decorations, etc. representing Holiday Decorations that take advantage of their love of Railroading. Just hope this don’t ruin someone’s “Surprise Present” with an early publication here. The Mannings let the traditional Thanksgiving Turkey trot around an autumn village scene / tree in their foyer last year. - Terry Manning [I wonder if it laid an egg..........liner for this year’s run around the tree? - Editor] My neighbor from across the highway made this wreath for us. - John Lees We have been converting our back porch into a North Pole railroading theme for several years. Of course, I'm a nut for support buildings, so it expands and changes every year. For this year, my new 22.5 degree crossover figure 8 track layout is in use. I populated the village with elves and cartoon characters. No humans except Santa and Mrs. Claus. - Terry Manning Page 4 Georgia Garden Railway Society Dec 2020 Back at the beginning of the year I saw an ad for this Santa Chloe as a preorder item. Didn’t really need another Christmas train, but have always wanted one of these LGB engines, liked the color scheme, so I ordered one. And promptly forgot about it. Well it arrived this week along with 30 passengers who’ll need their clothing pained in Christmas colors. So I have a project as we enter indoor weather time of year. - Russ Bundy I picked one out from a few years ago . - R.J. DeBerg This mantle piece was tossed by a store after it didn’t sell. I haven’t decorated it for this year, but it does hold 2 plants that I haven’t manage to kill just yet. - Emil Decker My favorite ornament and our train under the tree. - Ted Yarborough Page 5 Georgia Garden Railway Society Dec 2020 Track Warrants Event Location Date Status Want to become a host for next year? Now Model Train Show Clarence Brown March 13 - Current is the time to consider, and select the month 2021 Convention 14, 2021 Proposal to you would like to reserve. First come, first Center, attend choice of month. Next year is going to be wide open for only a little while, so pick Cartersville, GA your date and inform the Secretary (Pam Williamson) now. 36th National Gaylord May 30 - Ngrc2020 Garden Railway Opryland Resort, Jun. 5, 2021 .com Convention Nashville, TN NEXT GGRS Your Layout ?? 2021 Plan Now! Member Hosted Meeting Standard Time and time zones, with pressure mounting from the railroads, were instituted in the U.S. and Canada on November 18, 1883. What time zone was Georgia in at the beginning of it all? Answer on page 21. NMRA SER News The SER and Palmetto Division are moving forward with plans for Swamp Rabbit Express, the 2021 Convention to be held in Greenville, SC June 10-13, 2021. Check out the Convention website - www.swamprabbitexpress.org Dave Winans, Convention co-chair Page 6 Georgia Garden Railway Society Dec 2020 The restoration of the Southern X376 Caboose: Part 7 of a series by John Lees Now the work began on the caboose I started with a small CAD program and drew the existing floor plan. Then I drew how I thought I wanted the floor plan to be when done. Much to my surprise, the basic plan drawn then is what it looks like today. Learning every step of the way Starting by removing everything from the inside that did not belong seemed like a good idea. A good look at the interior showed that the way to affix something to a metal wall is with a rivet. These were ½”, ¾” and 1’ rivets. My first approach was to drill out the center of each rivet. I took my high end DeWalt drill bits and started on rivet 1. I touched the center, pushed very hard on the drill and dulled the bit in a Milli- second. We tried carbide tipped, and any other type of bit that sounded good and hard. Nothing worked. Next, we got a grinder from Home Depot and attached a cutting blade. The “cutter” worked and the rivet head was cut off at the wall. Finally, we were able to use a heavy-duty punch and punched the center of the remaining portion. What remained was a hole with a hollow rivet holding tight. A drill bit using an 18-volt drill removed the remainder without damaging the hole. Cleaning House The following interior items were removed.
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