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MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR  B&O  20346 2

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR B&O 20346 2

4 $9.27 19h
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR  WM   20396

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR WM 20396

- $6.00 19h 2m
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR  WP   20506

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR WP 20506

- $9.00 19h 4m
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR  AMER. COLLOID  21190

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR AMER. COLLOID 21190

- $6.00 19h 7m
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR  SHASTA WATER  28140

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 40' BOXCAR SHASTA WATER 28140

- $6.00 19h 9m
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE 50' BOXCAR  READING   32320

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 50' BOXCAR READING 32320

- $8.00 19h 11m
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE 50' BOXCAR  PENN CENTRAL  34020

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 50' BOXCAR PENN CENTRAL 34020

- $6.00 19h 13m
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE  50' FLAT CAR N&W   45020

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 50' FLAT CAR N&W 45020

1 $5.00 19h 15m
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE  33' 2-BAY HOPPER  PENN.  57100

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 33' 2-BAY HOPPER PENN. 57100

- $7.00 19h 18m
Dutch Masters Muriel Cigar Train Box Car N Scale 1:160

Dutch Masters Muriel Cigar Train Box Car N Scale 1:160

- $5.95 19h 20m
MICRO-TRAINS  N-SCALE  2-BAY HOPPER  MKT    92040

MICRO-TRAINS N-SCALE 2-BAY HOPPER MKT 92040

- $11.00 19h 21m
3 - CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CARS - ATLAS,  KADEE,  MICRO-TRAINS

3 - CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CARS - ATLAS, KADEE, MICRO-TRAINS

2 $14.99 19h 55m
Dutch Masters Cigar Train Box Cars N Scale 1:160

Dutch Masters Cigar Train Box Cars N Scale 1:160

- $24.95 20h 25m
Kadee 20830 NH 40' SD boxcar Rd# 32198

Kadee 20830 NH 40' SD boxcar Rd# 32198

- $14.99 1d 21h 46m
Kadee RUNNER 70040 Milwaukee mechanical reefer Rd# 9711

Kadee RUNNER 70040 Milwaukee mechanical reefer Rd# 9711

- $11.99 1d 22h 8m
Kadee RUNNER 69010 GN WFEX mechanical reefer Rd# 837

Kadee RUNNER 69010 GN WFEX mechanical reefer Rd# 837

- $11.99 1d 22h 12m
Kadee RUNNER 69020 FGE mechanical reefer Rd# 10200

Kadee RUNNER 69020 FGE mechanical reefer Rd# 10200

- $11.99 1d 22h 15m
El Producto Cigar Train Box Car N Scale 1:160

El Producto Cigar Train Box Car N Scale 1:160

- $5.95 2d 20h 36m
Dutch Masters Cigar Train Box Cars N Scale 1:160

Dutch Masters Cigar Train Box Cars N Scale 1:160

- $24.95 2d 21h 22m
KADEE 40' Double Sheathed wood reefer  PEPSI COLA

KADEE 40' Double Sheathed wood reefer PEPSI COLA

- $6.50 3d 9h 44m
KADEE 40' wood sheathed reefer FRUIT DISPATCH

KADEE 40' wood sheathed reefer FRUIT DISPATCH

- $6.50 3d 9h 47m
KADEE 40' Dbl.scheated wood reefer N.Y.C (MDT)

KADEE 40' Dbl.scheated wood reefer N.Y.C (MDT)

- $6.50 3d 9h 49m
KADEE 40' Dbl.scheated wood reefer "Edelweiss"

KADEE 40' Dbl.scheated wood reefer "Edelweiss"

- $6.50 3d 9h 52m

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.