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HO Bachmann Spectrum Southern diner dining car # 1352

HO Bachmann Spectrum Southern diner dining car # 1352

- $15.00 1h 9m
Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 by Bachmann  HO

Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 by Bachmann HO

12 $47.99 1h 20m
Bachmann HO Scale Thunderbolt Train Railroad Set in Box

Bachmann HO Scale Thunderbolt Train Railroad Set in Box

12 $18.99 1h 40m
Bachman Turn-out Switches

Bachman Turn-out Switches

5 $10.50 1h 45m
Soutern Cresent Limited 4-6-2 #1396 by AHM  HO

Soutern Cresent Limited 4-6-2 #1396 by AHM HO

14 $31.50 2h 4m
BACHMANN SPECTRUM #81204 FM H16-44 DIESEL B & O #926

BACHMANN SPECTRUM #81204 FM H16-44 DIESEL B & O #926

$59.99 2h 9m
Bachmann HO Scale Caboose,  2 Burlington Cars Lot Of 3

Bachmann HO Scale Caboose, 2 Burlington Cars Lot Of 3

$21.95 2h 9m
BACHMANN 4 PC TRAIN SET + TRACK,  SIGNS  & TRANSFORMER

BACHMANN 4 PC TRAIN SET + TRACK, SIGNS & TRANSFORMER

1 $9.95 2h 15m
Bachmann 11107 GE B23 B30-7 Diesel - Conrail

Bachmann 11107 GE B23 B30-7 Diesel - Conrail

$39.99 2h 27m
Bachmann HO Santa Fe EMD GP38-2 Diesel Locomotive

Bachmann HO Santa Fe EMD GP38-2 Diesel Locomotive

$33.60 2h 59m
BACHMANN SPECTRUM PASSENGER COACH

BACHMANN SPECTRUM PASSENGER COACH

- $45.00 3h 13m
Bachmann Spectrum 28325 Painted Undec 4-4-0 DCC

Bachmann Spectrum 28325 Painted Undec 4-4-0 DCC

$125.00 3h 13m
BACHMANN SPECTRUM HO #01307 NYC PASSENGER STEAM SET

BACHMANN SPECTRUM HO #01307 NYC PASSENGER STEAM SET

$250.00 3h 19m
BACHMANN HO READING LINES DIESEL LOCO.DCC EQUIPPED, NEW!

BACHMANN HO READING LINES DIESEL LOCO.DCC EQUIPPED, NEW!

$45.00 3h 20m
BACHMANN HO CONRAIL 2269  DIESEL LOCO.DCC EQUIPPED, NEW!

BACHMANN HO CONRAIL 2269 DIESEL LOCO.DCC EQUIPPED, NEW!

$45.00 3h 25m
Bachmann Trains  Empire Builder Ready-To-Run Train Set

Bachmann Trains Empire Builder Ready-To-Run Train Set

$49.99 3h 27m
Weathered Bachmann Silver RTR NP 3 bay hopper #73697

Weathered Bachmann Silver RTR NP 3 bay hopper #73697

$14.95 3h 41m
HO BACHMANN AUTO-TRAIN 85' DOUBLE DECK AUTO TRANSPORTER

HO BACHMANN AUTO-TRAIN 85' DOUBLE DECK AUTO TRANSPORTER

- $9.99 3h 44m
HO BACHMANN AUTO-TRAIN 85' DOUBLE DECK AUTO TRANSPORTER

HO BACHMANN AUTO-TRAIN 85' DOUBLE DECK AUTO TRANSPORTER

- $9.99 3h 45m
HO Bachmann E-Z Track Expander set 44494

HO Bachmann E-Z Track Expander set 44494

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$35.75
$39.95
3h 45m
HO SCALE TRAIN SANTA FE BLOODY NOSE F-9A DIESEL ENGINE

HO SCALE TRAIN SANTA FE BLOODY NOSE F-9A DIESEL ENGINE

- $9.99 3h 49m
Bachmann Erie Lackawanna 50' PD boxcar WMWKD

Bachmann Erie Lackawanna 50' PD boxcar WMWKD

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$4.79
$9.29
3h 54m
sante fe passenger car set

sante fe passenger car set

- $190.00 3h 59m

Train news

  • 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.