Great pictures all. Arnie, your craftsmanship in re-creating things of the distant past is just unbelievable. WOW! Scott- great sky scraper and neat 1835...your right I have never seen one of those come up for sale. Craig"- what a pleasure to see that century old Ives set run again. Your patience and effort to bring back your Grandfather's set is just great and it sure looks good running again. Trainweck99 the KBN loco with the "removable" cow catcher is really unique, shows how important the US market was to the early German toy makers.
Steve from PA...Here is that Marx 6" PRR "Merchandise Service" boxcar that you mentioned you liked...and its principal competitor, the NYC, "Pacemaker" Freight Service box car. I will admit, I had never seen anything like the "Millennium Recovery Authority" modern Marx car, what a lithograph scheme on that one, what a beauty. I do remember the Y2K nonsense, I worked as an engineer in Naval aviation at that time and we had visions of aircraft falling out of the sky etc. Nothing happened...thank goodness.
Great pictures everyone. Thanks for posting
Don
