Toy Train Delivers Rural Mail (Apr, 1935)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1935
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1935
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Toy Train Delivers Rural Mail
“NECESSITY is the mother of invention.” An Oregon rancher, living a mile from the highway, proved the truth of this old maxim when he put the world’s smallest mail train in operation over a spur line between his home and the road to save his wife the trip.
The train, powered with small dry-cell batteries, makes the trip to the road every morning, pulling a tiny mail box. Upon arrival, it is stopped by a lever laid along the track.
