A little aside on our quest to implement The Omega Scale Railway. I recently sent a series of e-mails to Hallmark Cards® and Lionel® the train manufacturer. After Hallmark finally understood what I really wanted, they stated that the Lionel hanging tree ornaments were indeed made by Lionel. The ornament itself has made in China on the bottom of the box. The ornaments themselves have a reference to both Hallmark and Lionel. As a further aside to the aside, the reason all this rig-a-ma-roll is going on is that the dog gone ornaments are almost the correct scale (or maybe the exact scale [insert sneer emoji here] :) . Some of you are probably reading my mind. Why not get these scale items manufactured? Wow! What new vistas would open up. Back to the e-mails, so far no response from Lionel other than an acknowledgment by robot that the e-mail was received. However right as I was preparing this blog entry I was examining the above mentioned artifacts. On the flap of the little box I notice a promo message “Join our ornament club!” “Learn more at www.KOCmembers.com” The mystery continues...