WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
LEGACY RESOURCE CIRCA 2001
WHAT IS THIS SITE…
The mission of the HO-Scale Trains Resource is to provide information relating to the history of ready-to-run model trains.
This site works toward the fulfillment of this mission through the construction of websites displaying, detailing, and describing model train offerings of the past. Specific product lines are presented with their own individual websites that provide the viewer with a look at what each company offered the model railroading hobby.
The HO-Scale Trains Resource provides this information to visitors thanks to generous donations of materials and funds that enable the websites to exist, grow and remain available online.
Launched in 2000 with the TYCO Trains Resource, The HO-Scale Trains Resource has for over a decade been dedicated to being the foremost online resource of information regarding ready-to-run 1/87th model trains in the world.
HOW IT WORKS…
Use the various menus to find the names of various HO-scale train makers. Each page gives a brief description of what is found on those specific sites. Links are presents on each page to transport you directly to the various pages.
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About This Site and Author
Growing up in the 1970s, I was lucky to have been the right age to enjoy the many companies that entered and in many cases quickly exited the HO-scale trains market. My train layout in those days was packed with offerings from AHM, Athearn, Atlas, Bachmann, Cox, Like-Like, Lionel-HO, Pemco, Revell and of course TYCO…and today decades later I still enjoy a look through those company’s old catalogs.
In 2000, I noticed that there was no site devoted to TYCO’s line of trains and I was surprised and thought such a site would be enjoyed by many. Today, the TYCO site is one of many I maintain and continually expand and enhance. My sites received thousands of visitors each day, proving that there are a great many other folks out there with an interest in older ready-to-run trains.
Thanks for visiting and stop by again in the near future, there’s always something new to see!
Why go to Disneyland, when there’s places like Walthers to visit?!? Here I am riding on my mom’s shoulders at the original Walthers’ home offices in Milwaukee in 1968.