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PWRS 1124-3c=3-PK UP 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOPPERS SUPERSET

PWRS 1124-3c=3-PK UP 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOPPERS SUPERSET

1 $33.33 15m
Intermountain N-Scale Cyl. Cvd. Hopper TH&B #1548

Intermountain N-Scale Cyl. Cvd. Hopper TH&B #1548

3 $5.51 52m
Intermountain N-Scale Wood Reefer Swift #1048

Intermountain N-Scale Wood Reefer Swift #1048

3 $4.15 55m
InterMountain 4750 Hopper BNSF 65368-06 to -11 Qty 6

InterMountain 4750 Hopper BNSF 65368-06 to -11 Qty 6

2 $54.00 1h 7m
Intermountain Canadian National CN Covered Hopper

Intermountain Canadian National CN Covered Hopper

- $8.98 1h 34m
InterMountian Wood Reefer Bangor & Aroostook  N-scale

InterMountian Wood Reefer Bangor & Aroostook N-scale

$18.95 3h 19m
IMRC 65360-02= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP B&O Rd#603709

IMRC 65360-02= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP B&O Rd#603709

3 $9.26 13h 40m
IMRC 65360-05= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP B&O Rd#603769

IMRC 65360-05= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP B&O Rd#603769

3 $9.03 13h 41m
IMRC 65309-01= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP D&H Rd#12304

IMRC 65309-01= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP D&H Rd#12304

4 $8.55 13h 45m
IMRC 65358-02= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP N&W Rd#177234

IMRC 65358-02= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP N&W Rd#177234

4 $9.00 13h 48m
IMRC 65358-05= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP N&W Rd#177652

IMRC 65358-05= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP N&W Rd#177652

2 $0.99 13h 50m
IMRC 65325-06= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP N&W Rd#177739

IMRC 65325-06= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP N&W Rd#177739

3 $1.56 13h 54m
IMRC 65348-10= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP GRPX Rd#944168

IMRC 65348-10= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP GRPX Rd#944168

1 $0.99 13h 58m
IMRC 65352-04= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP  MKT Rd#4257

IMRC 65352-04= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP MKT Rd#4257

7 $6.69 14h 2m
IMRC 65352-05= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP  MKT Rd#4263

IMRC 65352-05= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP MKT Rd#4263

7 $5.12 14h 5m
IMRC 65369-04= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP  PLE Rd#1908

IMRC 65369-04= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP PLE Rd#1908

5 $5.01 14h 10m
N 1:160 Intermountain New York Central Boxcar Model Kit

N 1:160 Intermountain New York Central Boxcar Model Kit

- $8.49 18h 56m
Milwaukee Road Custom N Intermountain 4750 Hopper Milw

Milwaukee Road Custom N Intermountain 4750 Hopper Milw

- $16.99 19h 31m
Milwaukee Road Custom N Intermountain 4750 Hopper Milw

Milwaukee Road Custom N Intermountain 4750 Hopper Milw

- $16.99 19h 32m
N Scale Intermountain DM&E Trinity 5161 Hopper 51234

N Scale Intermountain DM&E Trinity 5161 Hopper 51234

- $14.99 22h 46m
Intermountain 67035-01 ACF 4650 Cu Ft 3-Bay Hopper BN

Intermountain 67035-01 ACF 4650 Cu Ft 3-Bay Hopper BN

5 $10.39 1d 1h 49m
FGE Reefer 6 pack PRR B&O L&N N&W C&O SAL ACL SRR GN IC

FGE Reefer 6 pack PRR B&O L&N N&W C&O SAL ACL SRR GN IC

1 $69.00 1d 11h 21m
RC 25642-4= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP  CR Rd#890716

RC 25642-4= PS 3 BAY 4750CF COV HOP CR Rd#890716

1 $0.99 1d 13h 50m

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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.