Please pardon a tourist from over at the CTT Forum, but I need to ask a question over here. The G train world is unfamiliar territory for me, but my sons and I are thinking of getting a G set to go along with their civil War soldiers. I know that, amny years ago, Kalamazoo did a par of Civil War sets, but they are apparently hard to find and expensive. While I'm not looking for the ultimate in scale fidelity here, I'm wondering which manufacturers make 1/29 and 1/32 trains and whether any would fit into the mid-19th century milieu. I haven't been able to find even a list of who makes trains in those scales these days (or did in the past), but I figured you guys over here would know.
Thanks in Advance!
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
Rene S wrote:In a nut shell:Hartland 1:29Märklin 1:32MTH 1:32USA Trains 1:29
I think Rene meant to say AristoCraft (but not the AristoClassics line) instead of Hartland in the first line at 1:29. Hartland, the Aristo Classics and USA Trains American and Work car series are 1:24. Also Lionel made some 1:32 which you see pop up on eBay frequently.
-Brian
palallin wrote: Please pardon a tourist from over at the CTT Forum, but I need to ask a question over here. The G train world is unfamiliar territory for me, but my sons and I are thinking of getting a G set to go along with their civil War soldiers. I know that, amny years ago, Kalamazoo did a par of Civil War sets, but they are apparently hard to find and expensive. While I'm not looking for the ultimate in scale fidelity here, I'm wondering which manufacturers make 1/29 and 1/32 trains and whether any would fit into the mid-19th century milieu. I haven't been able to find even a list of who makes trains in those scales these days (or did in the past), but I figured you guys over here would know. Thanks in Advance!
Hartland Locomotive Works or HLW, sells 4-4-0 American locomotives and old style freight and passenger cars in 1/24 scale that are right in the same vien as alot of Civil War era soldier figures that are 1/25 scale. Its a pretty seemless cross over.
In fact they are retooled from old Kalamazoo train items, and Kalamazoo sold a North/South civil war train sets way back in the day.
Check them out, I think you will find what your asking for.
www.h-l-w.com
Have fun with your trains
Thanks for the info, guys. I'm not going to sweat the scale too much, but the soldiers they have are in the 54mm range, approximately 1/32, although some are a bit bigger. I don't believe any of them are 3", though. Of course, the kids won't know or notice! I guess I was just hoping to find something in closer proportion--dang adult pickiness!
In any case, the question seems moot: none of the 1/32 or 1/29 lines I've found has 19th century equipment.
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