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2. Ives Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   William R. Haberlin is the man who made all of the tools and dies for the original Ives O-gauge ("O" gauge) clockwork train line in 1901. Aside from the patterns for the iron locomotives bodies (made by Charles A. Hotchkiss, mentioned in Model Craftsman - March 1944) and the clockwork mechanisms themselves (manufactured by The Reeves Manufacturing Company in New Haven, Connecticut, later in ...

3. Standard Gauge (toy trains) - Wikipedia

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   Dorfan went out of business in 1934. Lionel discontinued Standard Gauge trains in 1940. Boucher, the last of the wide gauge manufacturers, folded in 1943. O gauge, was smaller, less expensive to manufacture and it required less space to operate a layout. Thus, it became the most popular scale in the United States almost by default.

4. Lionel Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Lionel responded by targeting advertising at children, telling them its products were the most realistic toy trains. Additionally, Lionel criticized the durability of competitors' products in ads targeted at parents. [6] By 1922, Lionel was competing mainly against American Flyer and Ives Manufacturing Company. Also in 1922, Boucher bought out ...

5. List of most powerful locomotives - Wikipedia

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   Most scrapped; the prototype and 15 production locomotives have been preserved in museums. PRR Q2: Pennsylvania Railroad: 6131, 6175-6199 Altoona Works: 1941–45 Steam 4-4-6-4: 456 tonnes (503 short tons) 115,816 pounds-force (515 kN) with booster 7,987 horsepower (5,956 kW) Most powerful steam locomotive ever static tested. PRR S1 ...

6. 10 of the Most Expensive Items Ever Sold on eBay

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   Related: The Most Expensive Celebrity Homes of All Time. the ghost town of albert, texas. 5. Albert, Texas. Sold for: $2.5 million.

7. O scale - Wikipedia

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   One of the Lionel Corporation's most popular trains, the 203 Armoured Locomotive, was O gauge and ran on tracks with rails spaced 1.25 inches apart. The Great Depression wiped out demand for the expensive larger trains, and by 1932, O gauge was the standard, almost by default.