Hobbyline Set No. 1
Hobbyline produced a number of train sets, beginning with a few unnamed sets (I’ve seen 1–4) and then adding more, with names, later on. A kind soul on the Tyco Trains forum has discussed the sets in a thread there and shared plenty of information on Hobbyline products. Here are a couple photos of my …
Model Trains, January 1960
For about a decade in the 1950s and early 1960s, Kalmbach published Model Trains alongside its flagship Model Railroader. The magazine, which had begun with a somewhat different title under another publisher, in this Kalmbach incarnation at least was oriented more toward beginners than MR and at least some of the time offered space to …
Hobbyline Passenger Car “Morrisville”
The Hobbyline passenger car “Morrisville” was one of three streamline cars in a group that also included the “Trenton” and the observation car “Yardley.” Hobbyline trains were produced by the John English company, which was based in Yardley and Morrisville, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s.