card board HO guage toy trains

[Anonymous]

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

[csxt30]

Sounds like some nice stuff you have & you might also try posting that on The Modelrailroader forum also !!

http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/TopicsActive.aspx

Thanks, John

[Anonymous]

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.

[Joe Hohmann]

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

[tomikawaTT]

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)