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toptrain
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Posted - July 21 2012 : 09:45:15 AM

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* Penn-Line is a American HO train manufacturer from the past. They were located in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. They made a line of HO Locomotives including : PRR E8, H9, I1, K4, L1, T1. All Pennsylvania Railroad prototypes, and a Reading Crusader. A line that was continued on until 2011 by the Bowser Train Company, except for the Crusader. A long lived, and sadly missed HO scale model train line.

* Thinking of notable HO train produced by Penn-Line. One that I like is Pennsylvania streamline passenger set. it is pulled by a matching F7 A&B. Penn-line chose a Tuscan Red with a yellow single stripe. It used the old HObbyline-Varney cars. The Hobbyline cars were done differently. They were all silver with black lettering.

* Other passenger train equipment were marketed also. They released other streamlined passenger cars of a different type, the same as the ones made by the John English, HObbyline train Co. Then acquired by Varney and after Varney the Life-Like Company. Penn-Line also released was the plastic cresatory roofed passenger cars of Varney heritage. All penn-Line released passenger cars were clearly marked underneath each car. These set, and cars came in many different road names, also available separately.

* More to come ! Written and train photos.

Edit 12-08-14:

***About Penn-Line:
** If you go to the HOseeker site listed in our Tyco Forum, or to the direct link to Penn-Line trains to HOseeker in the post by Richard P. on 12-3-14. You can view their early catalogs. Before 1955 you can only find Locomotives. Now in the 1955 catalog you see a line of cars, both Passenger and freight. The only car made be Penn-Line in this catalog are the flat cars and the caboose. If you look closely you will see a different type of coupler used on all these cars. The Passenger cars, Reefer, box car, gondola, and the different type of coupler are all made in Western Germany by Fleischmann. This is how Penn-Line got into the train set business. In the following years Penn-Line made more of their own cars. Adding more each year. When the NMRA ( National Model Railroad Association) designed and released their choice of a new common type HO coupler for American HO products, Penn-Line changed to this type coupler. Fleischmann adopted this type coupler also, on the cars they supplied to Penn-Line. This car be seen by longer time modelers having Penn-Line cars. Penn-Line phased out the use of Fleischmann cars before 1960 as the catalogs show HObbyline, Varney type passenger cars. These were provided by Varney to extend the Penn-Line line. Also A Mantua style box car is seen in the Penn-Line line in Great Northern, Union Pacific, D&RGW cookie box, NH, MP eagle with yellow door, WP feather, and Main Central. Mantua also provided gondolas in PRR, Wabash, B&O, and Monon. Some of these cars can be recognized by different lettering, coloring, and numbering. Some have, like all the passenger cars of the Varney type, the Penn-Line logo on the car bottom. Others dont. Some came with a black sticker with white lettering of the Penn-Line logo on their bottom. Collecting these cars can be challenging. You may think you have a Penn-Line, and only have a Mantua.
* Happy, successful, collecting.
frank

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Edited by - toptrain on December 08 2014 10:27:30 AM

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