O SCALE VINTAGE MARLIN TUNNEL

javinda · Post by **javinda** » Fri Jun 22, 2018 3:26 am

This is a beauty and with the little house too! https://www.flickr.com/photos/ariville/ ... 722568655/

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Sat Jun 23, 2018 11:20 am

Interesting...very similar to the Lionel tunnels. I wonder who ripped off who? Wonder what year this was manufactured.

javinda · Post by **javinda** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:19 am

This guy's train album is filled with interesting---and amazing--stuff like this https://www.flickr.com/photos/ariville/ ... 4842538651

javinda · Post by **javinda** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:15 am

I was drawn back to this guy's photostream---he really does have interesting things!

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:26 am

European toy trains are intriguing, especially those manufactured during the interwar period. The fact that the companies were able to re-emerge following the First World War, then struggle through the period of austerity, German hyperinflation, and then the Great Depression, is quite a story. There's an innocence seen here that belies all the ugliness of the period and following disaster. Many of the great toy companies of Europe would perish as a result. Seen in that light, it makes these artifacts even more amazing.