Electric Sky Rides
One of the many blogs I like to check out from time to time is called Modern Mechanix. The theme of the blog is "Yesterday’s tomorrow, today". A recent Modern Mechanix post featured an advertisement for "Beautiful Electric Sky Rides" from the December 1933 issue of Popular Science. The sky rides were electrically powered enamel painted tinplate creations which ran on a rail suspended from a series of towers. They looked very cool and the manufacturer boasted that they had the "finest toy power motor on earth." The Sky Ride would definitely be a nice complement to either an O Gauge or Standard Gauge tinplate layout. Electric Sky Rides remind me of the toy monorail manufactured by Leland Detroit that eventually was reproduced by MTH. Check out an image of the Sky Ride advertisement here.
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