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Martin, Bill and Bruce Brown with their Lionel Train Set



Martin, Bill and Bruce Brown with their Lionel Train Set
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Title: Martin, Bill and Bruce Brown with their Lionel Train Set
Description: Crewman are Brown and sons, Bill, 13 (right), and Bruce, 9. They plan to call their road the MBB Granite Railroad--for Martin, Bill, Bruce, and Montello, which is granite country. This one has 600 feet in a 40 x 15 foot basement room in the Martin Brown home. There are 70 locomotives, 250 cars, and dozens of switched devices, including a missile base that fires at cars. The entire system is Lionel, mostly the old track 0-27, 0 gauge and super O.
Image ID: 43740
Creation
Date: 		1962 
Creator
Name: 		Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Collection
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Genre: Photographs
Subjects: Hobbies
Toys
Children and adults
Family
Fathers
 

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