Whats With the Man in the Model Train on Addams Family

March 04, 2022 Post a Comment

The Addams Family Lionel train layout is intriguing for many reasons. First, information technology has the look and feel of a Lionel Brandish Layout, which were regularly produced by Lionel as a way for section stores to display and operate Lionel trains and accessories. There is a large post-obit of these layouts. For instance, we take in the "Runway Plans and Layout Blueprint" Forum on OGR, a 9-page thread on Lionel dealer display layouts. Here is the link:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...stwar-layouts?page=ane

The Addams Family TV prove was only on the air for two seasons with 64 shows produced from September 1964 through April 1966. I actually thought information technology was on TV for a longer period, but that may be considering its been rerun in syndication and so many times.

Over the years, the Addams Family layout has been discussed on the OGR Forum many times and a recent thread from 20CenturyHudson had a link to a Youtube video that has a compilation of all of the scenes on the show that that the layout appears.

Here are links to the thread and the video:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/a-funny-video

https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?...amp;characteristic=youtu.exist

The video is start, very funny, and 2d, information technology has a treasure trove of shots of the layout, from different angles, that one could probably use to recreate the rails plan, including accessories. I seem to recall a rails plan of the layout being posted on OGR, but I take not been able to locate it anywhere (the one that comes upwards is from the theatrical film from 1993).

The video is our version of the "Zapruda home movie" whereby you are able to accept screenshots of the layout that could be used to recreate the Addams Family unit Lionel Train layout.

This get-go shot is the best view of the first layout, which has Lionel Super O track (there is a 2d layout that uses tubular runway, information technology looks to exist a 4 pes past 8 foot layout). I approximate the size of the Super O layout to be v anxiety by 9 anxiety, which was the size for many of the Lionel Factory Display Layouts.

One interesting role of the layout is that the track has a roadbed underneath it. From what I have seen, none of the brandish layouts used a roadbed. On each pic, I take the time on the video that that it appeared, in example of the first flick, its at three minutes and 1 second.

In picture in a higher place is from the forepart left. The accessories in this shot include the No. 252 Automatic Crossing Gate (two of them on each end of the front end), a number of trestles including the No. 111 Trestle Set up and the No. 110 Graduated Trestle Set, a No. 214 Girder Bridge, two sets of the No. 76 Prepare of iii Boulevard Lamps. I also encounter the tower for the No. 345 Culvert Unloading Station. There are Super O Switches on the inside track and the outside track.

This adjacent picture is a frontal shot. On the far-left back corner, there is a lighted structure that looks sort of similar the building for the automatic gateman, but I tin't immediately place it.

The next picture is a closer in shot. The No. 342 Culver Loader is bear witness side by side to the No. 345; the No. 494 Rotary Beacon is correct backside the bridge.

This next film is taken from the control console side (where Gomez was standing) and conspicuously shows the No. 342 Culvert Loader. Its also a bully shot of the Super O track on the roadbed. The roadbed on the Addams Family unit Layout is a actually nice touch and looks professionally washed. In comparison, the Lionel Manufacturing plant layouts had just painted roadbed color on the plywood.

This next picture is besides taken from the same side equally the control console, (on other side of the previous picture and provides the impression that the two trains are on a collision course!), it shows a horse corral, probably for the No. 3356 Operating Equus caballus Car, a No. 334 Operating Acceleration Board, and a No. 260 Illuminated Bumper.

The picture show below from the opposite bending (front side), shows the Dispatch Board, and the Rotary Beacon covered with a cylinder to make it look like a h2o tower. You can too see a flag.

This next motion-picture show shows the switch in front end of the No. 317 Trestle Span, the switch information technology connects to on the inner track and part of the inner track switch that connects to a siding. Annotation the light is on for the switch. Love the look of that Super O track on the roadbed!

This side by side motion-picture show is a cute shot of the right side of the layout; in the foreground, there is the #334 Dispatching Lath, the No. 128 Blithe Newsstand (I recall) and a No. 89 Flagpole. In the forefront, there is the equus caballus corral, a milk car platform for the No. 3662 Operating Milk Car. The next accompaniment is a bit difficult to run into merely it looks like the No. 264 Operating Forklift Platform (without the forklift), and the No. 464 Rotary Beacon. Non sure who made that passenger car, its does not look like a Lionel.

Below is a close up of the same surface area, you lot can see the guide where the forklift goes on the No. 264, and the general area for the rail switch backside the flagpole.

This is another money shot, it's the command panel! This looks similar a professionally done control board, not different what was seen on the Lionel Factory Display layouts. Notice the three controlers for the switches on the upper left; a couple of the No. 364c switches and several of the No. ninety push button. I have not exactly figured out how many switches are on the layout, just with only three switches on the console, I wonder if the sidings were only used to run the accessories and not for running any engines.

Below is another prissy shot taken from the control panel side of the bridge, and the 6464-825 Alaska Box machine which is relatively rare. The bridge looks like some blazon of custom span. The span that they "blowup" looks to be made out of wood. The Santa Atomic number 26 F3 looks to accept seen a better day.

The Alaska Box car tells us something about the age of the layout. The layout does non look like it was custom congenital for the bear witness, instead it may have been custom built for a well-to-do family or maybe information technology was a store display. The No. 334 Acceleration Lath, was just produced in the 1957 to 1960 period, so that is another item that helps date the layout.

Beneath is the simply pic on the internet that I could detect of someone recreating the layout. That said, it does not await like its completely authentic either where the accessories are placed or the rail plan itself.

On the wrecks, at that place looks to be two of them, one with iii engines and ane with two.

This is the three-engine wreck, annotation the steam engine beneath, without a tender. It could be a 2037, which was a great puller.

This is the two-engine wreck, without the steam engine. All of the wrecks seem to use the same footage.

This next picture shows the new layout (probably for the second season). It has a figure eight in the middle and an oval on the outside with the trestle and bridge. The one affair that is noteworthy on that layout is that it had new Lionel equiptment similar an 027 Santa Fe Alco rider set and a steam engine. Perhaps Lionel supplied them in club to get some free product placement.

Information technology was love at first sight, a true love story….

Hopefully over the next few months, I can try and put the track plan together using some of the track planning software.

Lastly, the adjacent 2 pictures evidence the trains heading towards each other. Looks like they made a half span to film it (and get a longer run). Such drama. Maybe they shot information technology from the same side and just reversed the film for 1 of them.