@Todd Zimmerman posted:Bill,
One more time, big thanks for introducing me to Graeme Eldred’s website. I’m blown away by the sheer volume of information. No questions this will suck up many hours of my time. Too bad I didn’t know about this back in March!
Any other research-type websites you would recommend? I use the Postwar Lionel Library and Tandem Associates for Lionel and others. The TCA and TCA Western sites are helpful too.
Thanks again,
TZ
Todd:
You are very welcome. Graeme has done a great job identifying and finding info on so many lesser-known and now mostly defunct toy train manufacturers.
Regarding other reference sources, I use the ones you identified plus some others. The TCA site you may be referring to is the TCA-sponsored Toy Train Mailing List (TTML). I first discovered that site when it was on Yahoo. You probably know about it but for those who don’t know it is now on groups.io. You don’t have to be a TCA member to access it and here’s the link: https://groups.io/g/toytrains
You mentioned an interest in AMT and its decendents so here’s a link to the group that follows those manufacturers: https://amt-kusan-kmt-kris-wil...ups.io/g/main/topics
And if you have any interest in American Flyer, this site has plenty of info including scans of each page of each consumer catalog produced during the Gilbert era (1938-66) so it does include the Gilbert pre-war 3-rail O gauge era: http://myflyertrains.org/
And finally, here’s a site I just recently discovered with info on all toys including a section on trains: https://www.historytoy.com/
Hope this helps,
Bill
