...a neat find in that box lot I picked up last week.
No one really knows what the "C&FW" stood for, though it's interesting to note that the show's engineers were named Charley, Floyd and later Wendell. These were part of a 3 car set with a TYCO "Dixie Belle" Ten-Wheeler...
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Fine cars - I also checked a little this mark, Tyco - and saw some Civil War trains made in the 60s... and thought to myself: "If I was American, I definitely would love that (rail) Civil War era".
I grew up near several major battlefields---Antietam, Gettysburg, Harper's Ferry---haunting places all of them...the field for Picket's Charge is especially impressive...hard to grasp the idea of 15,000 men willingly marching over a mile in ranks through constant artillery fire on a hot July day.
Confederate Gap, a nearby railroad cut through the terrain is still there and used every day.
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