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Vintage Fleischmann Toy Steam Engine & 2 Accessories

Vintage Fleischmann Toy Steam Engine & 2 Accessories

10 $56.75 8h 13m
Fleischmann HO Union Pacific NO. 1341 train set in box

Fleischmann HO Union Pacific NO. 1341 train set in box

1 $175.00 9h 5m
10 5mm White Leds & Resistors for 24v DC:DDC Headlights

10 5mm White Leds & Resistors for 24v DC:DDC Headlights

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$6.29
$6.99
10h 27m
10 Red 3mm Leds, Holders, Resistors for 9v Systems

10 Red 3mm Leds, Holders, Resistors for 9v Systems

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$8.09
$9.99
10h 51m
 Fleischmann 1331 SNCF Crocodile!!

Fleischmann 1331 SNCF Crocodile!!

- $179.00 12h 8m
FLEISCHMANN HO 6457 PASSENGER CAR INT ILLUMINATION KIT

FLEISCHMANN HO 6457 PASSENGER CAR INT ILLUMINATION KIT

$15.00 14h 24m
FLEISCHMANN HO 6457 PASSENGER CAR INT ILLUMINATION KIT

FLEISCHMANN HO 6457 PASSENGER CAR INT ILLUMINATION KIT

$15.00 14h 24m
FLEISCHMANN HO 6457 PASSENGER CAR INT ILLUMINATION KIT

FLEISCHMANN HO 6457 PASSENGER CAR INT ILLUMINATION KIT

$15.00 14h 24m
Steiff Collection Animals Dolls Toys 1994 Catalogue

Steiff Collection Animals Dolls Toys 1994 Catalogue

$9.99 16h 48m
Fleischmann Set of 3 HO 4-Axle Passenger Coach w Lights

Fleischmann Set of 3 HO 4-Axle Passenger Coach w Lights

2 $41.00 17h 11m
FLEISCHMANN HO Tank Steam 2-8-4 Loco HO Die Cast Train

FLEISCHMANN HO Tank Steam 2-8-4 Loco HO Die Cast Train

- $79.99 17h 13m
Fleischmann Santa Fe 1342S Locomotive HO Die Cast Train

Fleischmann Santa Fe 1342S Locomotive HO Die Cast Train

- $69.99 17h 14m
Fleischmann 5057 K

Fleischmann 5057 K

$42.00 20h 47m
Altenmunster Beer-Truck 1:87 Historic KRUPP TITAN nice

Altenmunster Beer-Truck 1:87 Historic KRUPP TITAN nice

$6.66 1d 4m
10 Red 3mm Leds & Resistors for 12v DC:DCC

10 Red 3mm Leds & Resistors for 12v DC:DCC

$8.29 1d 1h 54m
Vintage Fleishmann Chicago North Western Diesel Engine

Vintage Fleishmann Chicago North Western Diesel Engine

6 $28.50 1d 5h 41m
Fleischmann Pennsylvania 0-6-0 locomotive & Tender WGer

Fleischmann Pennsylvania 0-6-0 locomotive & Tender WGer

2 $17.29 1d 10h 1m
Vintage Fleischmann Diecast Double Track Block Signal

Vintage Fleischmann Diecast Double Track Block Signal

1 $4.99 1d 11h 51m
10 White 3mm Leds & Resistors for 12v DC:DDC Headlights

10 White 3mm Leds & Resistors for 12v DC:DDC Headlights

$8.29 1d 12h 15m
Fleischmann HO Scale DB 65 014 Steam Tank Locomotive

Fleischmann HO Scale DB 65 014 Steam Tank Locomotive

9 $50.95 1d 12h 28m
Fleischmann Electric Loco No. E6902 and 2 Coaches

Fleischmann Electric Loco No. E6902 and 2 Coaches

4 $11.50 1d 12h 34m
3 Fleischmann Freight Cars # E433,  015204 and Dump

3 Fleischmann Freight Cars # E433, 015204 and Dump

2 $1.35 1d 12h 39m
RARE AHM German "DB" Diesel Locomotive,  New in Box

RARE AHM German "DB" Diesel Locomotive, New in Box

- $29.99 1d 12h 49m

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.