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ATHEARN CABOOSE SANTA FE TRAIN KIT 5367

ATHEARN CABOOSE SANTA FE TRAIN KIT 5367

- $9.99 11h 23m
ART # 782   57' MECHANICAL REEFER RED CABOOSE #8

ART # 782 57' MECHANICAL REEFER RED CABOOSE #8

$39.56 1d 18h 5m
ART # 774   57' MECHANICAL REEFER RED CABOOSE #5

ART # 774 57' MECHANICAL REEFER RED CABOOSE #5

$39.56 1d 18h 6m
4 HO freight car kits-Intermountain & Red Caboose

4 HO freight car kits-Intermountain & Red Caboose

- $14.99 2d 9h 56m
Tank car,  Red Caboose kit 3027-2 Anchor #2452

Tank car, Red Caboose kit 3027-2 Anchor #2452

1 $10.50 2d 14h 44m
Red Caboose Northwestern Pacific 46 47 S-40-5 Stock Car

Red Caboose Northwestern Pacific 46 47 S-40-5 Stock Car

1 $15.00 2d 18h 18m
2 Red Caboose DODX 40' flat cars 35096 and 35100

2 Red Caboose DODX 40' flat cars 35096 and 35100

5 $15.50 2d 18h 58m
STEWART KATO F-3 DRIVE (NO SHELL)

STEWART KATO F-3 DRIVE (NO SHELL)

- $39.95 2d 20h 26m
STEWART KATO F-3 DRIVE (NO SHELL)

STEWART KATO F-3 DRIVE (NO SHELL)

- $39.95 2d 20h 27m
Super Detailed rock Island 40' Boxcars HO NEW

Super Detailed rock Island 40' Boxcars HO NEW

3 $20.50 2d 21h 18m
Union Pacific Fruit Express R-70-15 mechanical reefer

Union Pacific Fruit Express R-70-15 mechanical reefer

- $34.95 3d 11h 30m
HO Scale Red Caboose

HO Scale Red Caboose

$1.99 3d 19h 49m
Little Red Cabooose - 9125

Little Red Cabooose - 9125

$1.99 3d 20h 32m
RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51015 UNIMATE BCR 'T' MED CPLR X 2

RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51015 UNIMATE BCR 'T' MED CPLR X 2

- $3.99 4d 19h 12m
RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51020 UNIMATE BLK 'T' LONG CPLRS X 2

RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51020 UNIMATE BLK 'T' LONG CPLRS X 2

- $3.99 4d 19h 12m
RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51000 UNIMATE BLK 'T' SHORT CPLRS X2

RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51000 UNIMATE BLK 'T' SHORT CPLRS X2

- $3.99 4d 19h 12m
RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51010 RNP-51020 RNP-51000 COUPLERS

RED CABOOSE HO RNP-51010 RNP-51020 RNP-51000 COUPLERS

- $3.99 4d 19h 12m
Red Caboose Santa Fe 42' Flat Car - Choice 11#s

Red Caboose Santa Fe 42' Flat Car - Choice 11#s

5 $10.50 4d 19h 39m
Red Caboose PFE SP UP R-70-15 Hydra-Cushion Choice 8#s

Red Caboose PFE SP UP R-70-15 Hydra-Cushion Choice 8#s

2 $1.29 4d 20h 9m
Red Caboose SP Post '52 1937 AAR Box Car - Choice 11#s

Red Caboose SP Post '52 1937 AAR Box Car - Choice 11#s

5 $6.10 4d 20h 14m
Red Caboose HO 32504 100T Evans Coil Car Reading NIB

Red Caboose HO 32504 100T Evans Coil Car Reading NIB

- $22.99 5d 16h 18m
Red Caboose HO 32504 100T Evans Coil Car C&O Chesa NIB

Red Caboose HO 32504 100T Evans Coil Car C&O Chesa NIB

- $22.99 5d 16h 22m
2 Freight Cars Red Caboose HO Scale

2 Freight Cars Red Caboose HO Scale

- $19.95 5d 18h 20m

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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.