@FRENCHTRAINS - Daniel, great set for sure. I also noticed in the picture what seems to be a life sized (or perhaps real) locomotive head lamp in the background. Do you have any history on that?
@Fatman - looks like you have some work cut out for you to bring back some of those Hornby locos. However the shells seem in beautiful shape. Your comment on the steam chest omission was really interesting. Did Hornby actually make custom modifications for a particular retailer? Lionel and Marx made all kinds of substitutions to sets and some to loco's and rolling stock. Marx in particular would either add or remove side rods to bring the price down or boost the perceived value.
@Arne- beautiful passenger cars. I looked in my only reference covering Issmayer and Bub and did see some similar cars but in a yellow / red livery in the 1928 Bub catalog. Would these cars have been one of the many shared items between Issmayer and Bub?
Best wishes and thanks for the postings
Don
