@Fatman_- What a great set. I have the one Pioneer-Exprssen red coach like your foreground set with the "automatic" couplers and a "Kole Vogon" in white but with black lithographed lettering and what appears to be lithographed simulated wood slat sides (really just very light vertical black lines in the white) . I picked up both in a "antique" store in Denmark while on a business trip there quite awhile ago (1980's by my recollection). My Kole Vogon has the tab/slot type couplers as yours does. Since you labeled yours a "first model" I assume that mine must be a "second" model or later. I have never even seen a locomotive before much less had any chance to acquire one. But to me, the great find is the catalog. That is just priceless. Best of luck mate, what a GREAT find.
Don
