Lionel Trains-"Mercury Atlas Launching Car"-1962

[Lea71777]

Who can say Shades of the MX-Missile system?

[TheDragonTrain]

i real life when the rocket blast off the car the sting that was tied to the car would break the railing and the rocket would break in landing.

By the way timpriddy73 lionel has 3 rails because it allows complicated layouts without compilcated wiring

[grizzleybearz282004]

thanks for the nice comment and most of all thanks for posting this video for us all to see :-]

[timpriddy73]

LIONELS ARE UGLY AND CHUNKY LOOKING, MY TYCO WAS MORE CONVINCING------THREE RAILS  UGH

[grizzleybearz282004]

@timpriddy73 i had tyco train sets years ago there nothing compared to the great qty of lionel

[pbanta62]

LMAO watching the command module land nosecone-down. "Tell me this is a government operation" (Apollo 13)

[altfactor]

With the public mania over space during 1962, companies would do anything to try to link their products with the space program!

[elc1960]

Just a thought, but wouldn't the blast at lift-off theoretically destroy the flat car that carries the rocket? Those cars are (in real life) made of wood, steel and iron and would burn pretty easily from such a blast.

[wallexus]

Is it me or did the commercials back then seem much, much more sophisticated than those of today? ;)

[stenic2]

we had fun with these toys, nowadays kids have tons of videogames and still are bored

[planecrazy644]

God! I feel old! I was in college when this was released!