Choo-Choo-Chooooo!

My playmobil western theme HOLY GRAIL in-hand! The score now stands at 2 of 4. This is a childhood dream come true, guys around my age may have faint memory of this train running over their heads while dining at a local Mac Donald's outlet a long time ago... The steam engine & the two passenger cars in-tow just need the tracks & transformer speed control! The playmobil trains are in G scale, a popular scale for collectors of train sets (G scale = approx 1/24 scale). I might be looking out for the the cattle/freight & the money train carriages when this train is up & running!

4054 Western Locomotive:







President Abe Lincoln (not from tis train set) seen here officially welcoming "Steaming Mary".

4120 Western Passenger Car:


History time: Steam trains dominated railroad usage from the start of the 19th century, until the end of the 20th Century. Starting in 1804 (in Great Britain), steam locomotives were developed, used & gradually improved for the last 150 years. However steam locomotives were gradually superseded by diesel and electric locomotives from the1930's.