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Vintage HO Scale Train Car Con Cor Central Pacific

Vintage HO Scale Train Car Con Cor Central Pacific

- $9.99 8h 50m
Vintage HO Scale Train Car Con Cor Central Pacific

Vintage HO Scale Train Car Con Cor Central Pacific

- $9.99 8h 54m
Ho Con-Cor 40' PS-1 Insul Boxcar Undec PlugDoor Kit NIB

Ho Con-Cor 40' PS-1 Insul Boxcar Undec PlugDoor Kit NIB

1 $5.75 9h 58m
Ho Con-Cor Amtrak EMD E7-A Pwr and Dummy #353 & 369 NIB

Ho Con-Cor Amtrak EMD E7-A Pwr and Dummy #353 & 369 NIB

- $49.99 10h 27m
12 Con-Cor HO Gauge Tractor Trailers New

12 Con-Cor HO Gauge Tractor Trailers New

2 $26.00 12h 42m
CON-COR HO UNDECORATED COIL GONDOLA

CON-COR HO UNDECORATED COIL GONDOLA

- $5.99 17h 17m
HO Amtrak Phase 3 Material Handling Car

HO Amtrak Phase 3 Material Handling Car

- $10.00 19h
Concor HO Scale. 2 45' Preferred Pool Trailers.

Concor HO Scale. 2 45' Preferred Pool Trailers.

- $8.99 20h 8m
Concor HO Scale. MACK Tractor with CAST Sea Container.

Concor HO Scale. MACK Tractor with CAST Sea Container.

- $8.99 20h 19m
Con-Cor 165202 HO MP-15 Diesel Switcher DC DCC SP #2698

Con-Cor 165202 HO MP-15 Diesel Switcher DC DCC SP #2698

6 $17.38 20h 37m
Con Cor HO Passenger Car B & O Nice NR

Con Cor HO Passenger Car B & O Nice NR

- $9.99 20h 49m
CON-COR CAMBRIA CITY SHELL OIL FUEL TANKS  HO SCALE

CON-COR CAMBRIA CITY SHELL OIL FUEL TANKS HO SCALE

2 $9.99 20h 58m
Con-Cor 0015-001021 EMD GP-40  CSX 6556

Con-Cor 0015-001021 EMD GP-40 CSX 6556

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$56.00
$75.00
21h 6m
Con-Cor 0015-002121 EMD E-7A,  Pwrd unit SGL HDLT B&O

Con-Cor 0015-002121 EMD E-7A, Pwrd unit SGL HDLT B&O

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$67.50
$90.00
21h 6m
Con-Cor 0015-001020 EMD GP-40  CSX 6503

Con-Cor 0015-001020 EMD GP-40 CSX 6503

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$56.00
$75.00
21h 6m
Con-Cor 0015-002120 EMD E-7A,  Pwrd unit SGL HDLT B&O

Con-Cor 0015-002120 EMD E-7A, Pwrd unit SGL HDLT B&O

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$67.50
$90.00
21h 6m
N&W Passenger Car #1827 con-cor Model HO scale

N&W Passenger Car #1827 con-cor Model HO scale

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$8.00
$12.00
21h 18m
CON-COR HO CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN SET #2 W 3 BOXCARS

CON-COR HO CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN SET #2 W 3 BOXCARS

2 $4.90 21h 29m
Con-Cor HO UP M-10000 Add-On Pullman Oregon Trail

Con-Cor HO UP M-10000 Add-On Pullman Oregon Trail

- $98.95 21h 35m
Con-Cor HO UP M-10000 Add-On Pullman Overland Trail

Con-Cor HO UP M-10000 Add-On Pullman Overland Trail

2 $108.25 21h 39m
TRUE TO LIFE SCENERY BOOK,  by Alexander Zmuda,  author

TRUE TO LIFE SCENERY BOOK, by Alexander Zmuda, author

$7.95 23h 22m
CON-COR 0001-009505 PS2 SOUTHERN COVERED HOPPER KIT HO

CON-COR 0001-009505 PS2 SOUTHERN COVERED HOPPER KIT HO

1 $7.99 1d 12h 45m
Con-Cor HO Scale Conrail GP38 Item # 0015-2005

Con-Cor HO Scale Conrail GP38 Item # 0015-2005

- $26.00 1d 13h 50m

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.