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Bombardier Transportation – electric multiple units, diesel multiple units; Derby [66] Brush-Barclay – Kilmarnock; part of Wabtec [67] Brush Traction – diesel and electric locomotives; Loughborough; part of Wabtec [68] Clayton Equipment Company – diesel/electric/battery locomotives [69] Cowans Sheldon – railway cranes [70]
One of Carlisle & Finch's earliest products was electric toy trains, and they were the first company to manufacture them in America. [9] The wood and metal trains entered the marketplace c. 1897. They were approximately 5.5 inches (14 cm) tall and ran on metal track with rails 2 inches (5.1 cm) apart, known as 2 gauge. [4]
MotivePower, Inc. (MPI) was an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives. The company traces its history back to being a division of Morrison-Knudsen (MK) since 1972. [1] After MotivePower spun-off from MK, the company merged with the air brake manufacturer WABCO to form "Wabtec" in 1999, remaining as a brand of it.
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During its peak years in the 1950s, the company sold $25 million worth of trains per year. [2] In 1969, the company sold their model train lines to General Mills. It continued to operate until 1993 as a holding company for their toy stores. In 2006, Lionel's electric train became the first electric toy inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
K-Line Electric Trains is a brand name of O gauge and S gauge model railway locomotives, rolling stock, and buildings. Formerly the brand name under which Chapel Hill, North Carolina–based MDK Inc. sold its products, K-Line was then acquired by Sanda Kan, a Chinese toy manufacturer that formerly acted as K-Line's subcontractor.
In 2007 Bachmann purchased the Williams Electric Trains company, which has allowed the company to expand into the O scale market. Williams offers a more "traditional" train layout reminiscent of the 1950s, with diesel engines, and rolling stock similar in look to the same O gauge products introduced by Lionel Trains during the golden ages of ...