Wow!Look how clever the engineering is on that thing s!Simple mechanism that works more reliably than the electro mechanical units made by Lionel and others.
Boy, that is great! I am always looking for tinplate like that.
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
older the better for me love it
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Dsmith - that is COOL!
Regards, Roy
I somehow stumbled onto this old tin lithographed toy Coal Loader made by Wyandotte (perhaps in the 1940's - 1960's timeframe). Although it doesn't seem to have been marketed as a toy train accessory, it works perfectly with my Marx and Hafner windup and electric trains. It is a very clever mechanism that automatically loads marbles into trucks or freight gondolas.
Here is a video of all the loading action.
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