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TOY TRAINS Toy trains have been around since the beginning of railroads. Some of the earliest were actually made to be used as promotional tools for early railroads and subsequently ended up as toys. • During the Victorian era, the reign of Queen Victoria in England from 1837-1901, toy steam engines were very expensive and therefore, only for the wealthy. Other popular toys were pull-along trains in all shapes, materials and sizes and clockwork (wind-up) trains. • Most of the inexpensive toy trains were made in Germany, while Britain and France built the better class steam engines for the aristocracy. The U.S. industry was starting to use more cast iron for model trains. • None of the early toy trains were made as systems or sets with cars and tracks. When tinsmith Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Marklin started making and promoting sets that could be started with one or two pieces and then expanded, the marketing of model trains sets was on its way. Marklin actually got his start making tinplate dollhouses in about 1860. • Marklin’s popularity grew as did another German company, Bing, the country’s largest toy manufacturer, that focused more on accessories to go along with the train sets. • The first model train sets were quite large, but HO train sets are the dominant size for model trains in all countries today, except Britain, where the slightly larger 00 size reigns in popularity. HO train sets are 1/87 the size of real trains.
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