Hi all, Just a quickie.  The National Automatic Music Co. nickelodeon
is almost done!  The only thing I have to do is install some fabricated
parts on the dog race, and it will be operating for the first time since
1974.

I was only about two months old when the race was taken out, dismantled
and stored.  All I had to go on to restore it was a few snapshots, and
a drawing someone made before they took it all apart.  I am pretty
excited about it.

The only other thing I would like to do on it is strip all the old paint
off and repaint it to as close original color as possible.  I will not
probably have time to do that before the 1999 fair.

For those of you on Mechanical Music Digest, I made some diagrams,
and took some pictures of the piano and race.  Maybe I will be able to
submit them to the picture gallery for you to see.

Philip A. Edwards
Lionel - American Flyer Toy Trains Repair
Theatre Pipe Organ and Antique Musical Instruments