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Athearn opened a separate facility in Hawthorne, California, in 1948, and that same year he branched into HO scale models for the first time. [ 1 ] Athearn acquired the Globe Models product line in 1951 and improved upon it, introducing a comprehensive array of locomotive, passenger, and freight car models. [ 2 ]
Varney's V-1 motor was the beginning of his HO endeavor. It was small enough to place in an HO scale loco, with enough power to pull a long train. The motors ran on 6 volts direct current, like most designs of that day. Varney first offered the 4-6-2 Pacific and the 2-8-0 Consolidation in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
An HO-gauge model train layout is housed in the 1885 freight house; the layout depicts "the original 13 miles of commercial rail track stretching from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills", [8] and train videos are projected onto the wall behind. Other static displays include memorabilia explaining the role of the B&O Railroad and the station in the ...
Gorre & Daphetid. The Gorre & Daphetid ( [ˈɡɔːri], [dɪˈfiːtɪd]) model railroad was a notable HO-scale layout built by John Whitby Allen in Monterey, California. The Gorre & Daphetid, also known as "The Gorre" or just "The G&D," is a trio of three successive model railroads. The first two were smaller in scale and were built at Allen's ...
Advent of the TYCO brand. Launching in 1957, Mantua pioneered HO-scale model railroad “ready-to-run” die-cast locomotives. These products, also available as assembly kits, were sold under the "TYCO" name (for "Tyler Company"). [3] Many TYCO and Mantua die-cast products, such as steam engines, are collector's items today.
John Whitby Allen. John Whitby Allen (July 2, 1913 – January 6, 1973) was an American model railroader who created the HO scale Gorre & Daphetid model railroad in Monterey, California, and wrote numerous magazine articles on model railroading starting in the 1940s. Allen was renowned for his skill at scratch building and creating scenery.
Tech Model Railroad Club. A view of the HO scale model of the Green Building at the Tech Model Railroad Club in Cambridge, MA. The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) is a student organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [1] Historically, it has been a wellspring of hacker culture and the oldest such hacking group in North ...
HO scale model of a CSX locomotive First model railroad layouts in today's H0 gauge, 1926. After the First World War there were several attempts to introduce a model railway about half the size of 0 scale that would be more suitable for smaller home layouts and cheaper to manufacture. H0 was created to meet these aims.