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 Posted - January 05 2013 : 1:12:07 PM
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I like the weird and odd, plus I also have a thing for small layouts. Browsing old catalogs looking for battery trains, I came upon this. Eldon was best known for slot cars, but in the late 1960's, it looks like they ventured into trains. Below are the only pictures I've managed to find of this line. The turnouts would be interesting for trolley models.
Anyone ever seen one of these or have more pictures? I'd love to get one of these.
Regards,
Dan MacKellar
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Posted - January 05 2013 : 1:54:40 PM
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Is the track or anything close to "HO"? Neat piece!
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Posted - January 05 2013 : 2:09:17 PM
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| Yeah it's HO gauge.
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Posted - January 05 2013 : 3:26:41 PM
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very interesting but note that the cars are all 4 wheel types Obviously a EU import
Wouldn't mind finding one tho 
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Posted - January 07 2013 : 10:01:50 PM
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| I remember seeing somewhere Eldon imported alot from Japan. It's obviously electric. Don't know if Tomy made any HO scale trains...
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Posted - January 07 2013 : 10:56:57 PM
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Its been a long time since I've seen a Eldon toy;been a long time since I went to Sears too..
I used to think it was cool to take the bus with mom to sears back in Chicago in the 60s'.
sears had escalators (?)..that went up and down...I thought that was so cool....
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Posted - January 09 2013 : 10:35:52 PM
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I think I've seen exactly ONE auction on Ebay for one of these, some years ago. They're obviously not common. For some reason, I think Bachmann had a set called the Big Little train, like the exact opposite. Was an N gauge set to complement their HO stuff? Can't remember exactly. Anyway, thanks for posting that, neat train.
Jerry
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Posted - January 17 2013 : 09:33:26 AM
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Doing a bit of math, it looks like the tracks were about 8" Radius. Eldon was known to import Tomy stuff, but the track ends on that switch look like North American design.
I'd really like to get some more info on this set. It looks like it was offered as a prefab layout in 1966, and without by 1968.
Talk about an oddball little set.
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