Tinplate Model Trains Books

Classic Toy Trains

The earliest known American-made tin toy — a fire engine pulled by a brace of white horses ... A live-steam toy train consisted of a boiler that held water, ...

Toy Train Memories

Marx In ilit- early 1930s, tin-toy maker Louis Marx obtained an interest in ,1 ... During the 1990s the adult version of the toy train hobby underwent a ...

Antiques roadshow collectibles

Early American tin toy makers created floor locomotives that didn't run on ... Marklin also introduced the toy train switch point and the crossover that ...

Classic Lionel Trains, 1900-1969

To jump from stamped-tin toy locomotives to scale models for a whole ... even with the Great Depression winding down, it was a huge sum for a toy train. ...

Warman's Antiques & Collectibles Price Guide

The Golden Years of Tin Toy Trains

The first accurate and comprehensive cataloguing of the subject. Beautiful photography captures the subject matter perfectly.

Road & track

The pe- are gems, rare looks into the minds of three drivers who went on to further glory. NEW TIN TOY The Rail Zeppelin was a famous German train that ...

BusinessWeek

Whether they run eir trains or not, toy train collectors e not model ... First came the crudely pressed tin pull-toy trains of the 1830s and 1840s. ...

Railways and the Victorian imagination

1 A toy train of roughly similar date in the Hove Museum, is made of metal."1 By around 1870, there was a definable industry manufacturing model trains, ...

Toy Train Collecting and Operating

Even the tin lithographed trains by Marx, Hafner, American Flyer, and Unique have ... for the many and diverse specialties pursued by toy train collectors. ...

The Kovels' complete antiques price list

36, Lionel, Standard Gauge 15.00 Toy, Train, Refrigerator Car, ... Red Paint 30.00 Toy, Train, Streamline Railway, Pull, Wooden Wheels, Tin, Wyandotte, ...

American photography

Use a curve so that the train sweeps around the bend immediately into the crash. ... The sway will not be the jerk of a tin toy, but the ponderous sway of a ...

Tips and Tricks for Toy Train Operators

A word of caution: this process works on tin- plate only, since plastic ... that will allow you to spray-paint all surfaces of a toy train from all angles. ...

Kovels' Antiques & Collectibles Price List

Toy, Mickey Mouse, Jazz Drummer, Tin Lithograph, Squeeze, Chein, c.1935, ... 1955 385.00 Toy, Train, Disneyland Express, Plastic Engine, 3 Tin Cars, Windup, ...

The collector's book of railroadiana

It is one of today's leading avocations, and Dad is fast crowding junior out of this phase of toy train collecting. The tin-plate toy train collector, ...

Appleton's magazine

The front car of this train is the "crane car" — a marvel ... about the scenery as a boy might scatter a tin toy train by kicking it across his playroom. ...

All aboard! pull-toy train

Robert Micals Tinkle Bells You'd hardly recognize the toy at right as an empty No. 5 fruit- juice can, but that's just what it is. ...

The Gilded Age

Edward Ives of Ives, Blakeslee, & Secor invented a clockwork tin train with a working whistle in 1874 and it became a much copied and very popular toy. ...

Kovels' yellow pages

Toy train restoration/repair, parts, and supplies. ... Classic Tin Toy Co., PO Box 193, Sheboygan, WI 53082, 414-693-3371, 9:00 am-6:00 pm, ...

Modern Toy Trains

In an interview in the August 4, 1999, issue of Toy Train Revue, ... saw the former infantry sergeant looking back with a cheap tin locomotive in his hand, ...