PC gondola question

[Frisco Larry]

MTL 46060 PC 335518 was released 10/1977 and original MSRP was $3.95

[nkalanaga]

Larry:  Bailey's never seemed to change a price tag, so this may be a replacement lid, and I may have bought the car before moving.  Thank you!

Bryan:  Yes, I have several of the Trainworx cars, and plan on buying more as they release other schemes I can use.  At least two of the better ones are too modern for me, although I have samples of each, simply because they were the best available at the time.  N scale has certainly advanced in the last 40+ years. 

[robert3985]

...That box has a price tag on it from "Bailey's Toys & Hobbies", a long out of business shop originally in Pasco, WA, and dated 10-78. 

Man! Bailey's!!  When I was a kid, Bailey's Toys & Hobbies was absolute heaven for me.  I lived in Kennewick, and when dad said, "Let's go to Bailey's!" I always had a big smile on my face and hope in my heart!  For some reason, it was a big deal to cross the Columbia and go to Pasco, all of four or five miles away! I haven't thought about them since I moved out of Washington in the mid 1970's. Thanks for the pleasant reminder!

[nkalanaga]

Yes, they're responsible for me being in N scale.  Christmas of 1967, I received a 000 train set.  At ten years old, it wasn't too successful, as I didn't have the skills to correct all of the deficiencies, but it was a train.  My first real N scale car was a Trix (Aurora) 40 ft gon, which convinced me that small trains would work.  At that time Bailey's was on south 4th St, in the middle of the block.  In the 70s they moved to Clark St, west of 4th, about two blocks from where they had been.  After we left the area they moved to the Kennewick Highlands, off what's now US 395, and then disappeared.  I think I was in their Kennewick store once, probably in 81 or 83. 

For those who remember 000, did you ever try mixing its hook couplers with Rapidos?  They would work together with a little bending of the hooks!