HI, I have a HerculesPowder company tanker, two box cars (one Illinois Central and one Pacific Fruit Express) and a Great Northern caboose. They are old and made of card board with a wooden base and wooden wheels. each has a hook on either end and are ho guage. Can you tell me about when they were made and by whom? Thanks in advance! Sincerely Steve
Sounds like some nice stuff you have & you might also try posting that on The Modelrailroader forum also !!
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Thanks, John
hope this helps! many many moons ago cereal boxes came with HO size cut outs of various train cars. my father would cut them out,glue them to heavier card stock &set them on our train table as non moving displays. this took place around the late 40s or early 50s.
Good heavens!!! Lionel made a “O” size cardboard set during WWII, and THAT was a nightmare to put together. I can’t imagine one in “HO”. Joe
At just about the same time, I could go to my local candy store/soda fountain and buy Strombecker kits for HO cars - wood floors, wooden ‘trucks’ (including wooden wheels!) wood blocks for ends, a wooden roof and cardboard sides and roof walk. There were also several staples from which to fabricate stirrup steps, ladder rungs and grab irons, and a microscopic tube of acetate model cement.
With half-decent trucks and couplers (Mantua - looked like basketball hoops!) they could be made into fairly decent looking models.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)