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Kalamazoo 4-4-0 Locomotive,   With steam chuff & whistle

Kalamazoo 4-4-0 Locomotive, With steam chuff & whistle

- $118.00 15m
LGB 3081 DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN COMBO CAR

LGB 3081 DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN COMBO CAR

- $75.00 2h 7m
LGB 2001 Gustav Handcar

LGB 2001 Gustav Handcar

3 $56.00 2h 7m
LGB 3080 DENVER & RIO GRANDE PASSENGER CAR G SCALE

LGB 3080 DENVER & RIO GRANDE PASSENGER CAR G SCALE

- $75.00 2h 17m
Freight Car Brake Wheels  10-Pack  **NEW** LGB

Freight Car Brake Wheels 10-Pack **NEW** LGB

1 $9.95 2h 47m
L G B The Big Train 21401 + Extra Cars  Not complete

L G B The Big Train 21401 + Extra Cars Not complete

- $249.99 3h 28m
usa modern tank car train g scale aristo

usa modern tank car train g scale aristo

- $60.00 3h 48m
Pola-LGB Large coaling depot Limited Edition

Pola-LGB Large coaling depot Limited Edition

$299.00 4h 38m
POLA LGB DIESEL TANK SHED!! NIB!! UNOPENED!! G SCALE!

POLA LGB DIESEL TANK SHED!! NIB!! UNOPENED!! G SCALE!

$49.45 4h 41m
usa trains ps-1 boxcar g scale aristo

usa trains ps-1 boxcar g scale aristo

- $60.00 4h 43m
usa trains f-3 a unit g scale

usa trains f-3 a unit g scale

- $140.00 4h 48m
LIFE LIKE LGB G SCALE GREEN SHADE TREES (2) 1951 4"-5"

LIFE LIKE LGB G SCALE GREEN SHADE TREES (2) 1951 4"-5"

1 $0.99 4h 58m
LGB 67319 SPOKED STEEL WHEEL SET (2 PIECES) NEW IN BAG!

LGB 67319 SPOKED STEEL WHEEL SET (2 PIECES) NEW IN BAG!

$24.99 4h 59m
LGB 40933 UNION PACIFIC 50' MODERN STEEL BOXCAR NIB!!!!

LGB 40933 UNION PACIFIC 50' MODERN STEEL BOXCAR NIB!!!!

$74.99 5h 1m
LGB 32224 AMTRAK AMFLEET PHASE 4 CAFE PASS CAR NIB SALE

LGB 32224 AMTRAK AMFLEET PHASE 4 CAFE PASS CAR NIB SALE

$199.99 5h 3m
LGB 20490 AMTRAK GENESIS DIESEL LOCO PHASE 3 NIB! SALE!

LGB 20490 AMTRAK GENESIS DIESEL LOCO PHASE 3 NIB! SALE!

$249.99 5h 4m
LGB 45823 HOSTESS MODERN CENTER FLOW HOPPER NIB BLOWOUT

LGB 45823 HOSTESS MODERN CENTER FLOW HOPPER NIB BLOWOUT

$49.99 5h 4m
LGB 40870 MODERN TANK CAR PLATFORM W RAIL & STEPS PART

LGB 40870 MODERN TANK CAR PLATFORM W RAIL & STEPS PART

$19.99 5h 5m
LGB 42911 1993 COCA COLA BOXCAR BRAND NEW IN BOX!!!

LGB 42911 1993 COCA COLA BOXCAR BRAND NEW IN BOX!!!

$89.99 5h 6m
LGB 41873 HOOKER MODERN TANKCAR BRAND NEW IN ORIG. BOX!

LGB 41873 HOOKER MODERN TANKCAR BRAND NEW IN ORIG. BOX!

$89.99 5h 7m
LGB 20232 STYLE COMPLETE AMERICAN STEAM SOUND SYSTEM!!!

LGB 20232 STYLE COMPLETE AMERICAN STEAM SOUND SYSTEM!!!

$69.99 5h 8m
HLW 09550 D&RG 4-4-0 American w Tender,  Black,  NEW!!!

HLW 09550 D&RG 4-4-0 American w Tender, Black, NEW!!!

- $369.99 5h 9m
HLW 09562 Jupiter CP 4-4-0 American w Tender,  NEW!!!!

HLW 09562 Jupiter CP 4-4-0 American w Tender, NEW!!!!

- $425.99 5h 9m

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  • TRAINS HISTORY

    Prehistory There have been models and toys of trains for as long as there have been real railways. Indeed some early models of locomotives were made first as sales promotional tools for the early railways, even if they later might have become playthings. During the Victorian period toy and model trains and locomotives fell into a number of categories there were the live steam engines, expensive and only for the wealthy, there were pull along trains in all shapes, sizes and materials, penny toys in lead and tin and latterly clockwork engines. The steam and clockwork engines might be intended to run on the floor, or a simple track assembled by the user, but there was no real sense of system about these trains. Most of these toys were made in Germany. Britain and France tended only to make the better class of steam engine. There was an indigenous US industry, with considerable use of cast iron rather than tinplate. The Real Beginning The defining event in toy train history was the launch by Marklin in 1891 of the first complete system of trains. While the first models were derived from earlier products, what Marklin introduced was a series of standard track gauges, ready to use track sections for those gauges, and a range of locomotives, rolling stock and accessories to match. Now you could have an initial train set, but continually add and expand till your miniature railroad empire was complete - which it never was.

     

    This was of course good for the toy manufacturer, indeed this is possibly the first example of the expanding range, with items at various price points Christmas, birthdays, parents and relations and pocket money sized, which is one of the basic features of most successful toys since.

     

    These first Marklin models were made in three gauges called 1, 2 and 3, logically enough. Painted and soldered tinplate was the main material, and clockwork the driving power. And they were crude. But the range was clearly a great success. So Marklin expanded and improved its range, after a few years adding a fourth, small gauge O. The range of accessories was greatly expanded. Other German toy makers introduced competitive products, most importantly Bing then probably Germanys, and hence the worlds, largest toy maker. Despite the odd divergence these makers generally adopted the same standards as to gauge as Marklin, while developing new production techniques, in particular the use of lithographed printed tinplate, allowing much cheaper and more colorful items, at the expense of some robustness.

     

    By the start of the 20th century other methods of propulsion were being applied too, in that live steam and electric powered models had taken to the toy train rails, though clockwork was still the prime mover. More importantly the first ranges of Marklin and Bing and others were growing and improving each year, and as with the rest of the German toy trade, was strongly export oriented, thus spreading toy trains world wide. The main markets were Britain, France and their empires and the US. Britain had no indigenous toy maker to compete with, nor really had France, but there was home based competition in America. Britain however had something else - model railways

     

    Model Railways

    The hobby of model railways can really be said to have been founded in the U.K. at the start of the Edwardian period. There were already active amateur model engineers, building live steam locomotives and with a keen interest in the real railways. One of the embryo suppliers to this group was a young man, W J Bassett Lowke. He saw the potential of using the German toy trains, particularly the track and mechanisms, with bodies rather more accurate as to prototype and selling not as a toy to children but rather to adult enthusiasts. And he used the services of another young man, Henry Greenly, as a designer of these models. Greenly, among other things, established a system of scales using the Marklin  gauges as the starting point. He also founded the first periodical devoted to model railways. And thus from the beginning the hobby of model railways was in part a toy, and in part the effort of amateur and professional model makers coexisting, sometimes comfortably and sometimes not.

    Bassett Lowke tended to use the services of Bing and Carrette for its own models, but of course once the idea of British outline models was established the German makers started to produce models for sale by other importers, for example Marklin for the Gamages store in London.