I'm going through boxes of trains as part of an estate liquidation and came upon a real mystery. there's this New Haven Electric, all tin, has dual motors with nylon gears, and has a tag on the bottom that reads David O'King. Anybody have any information on this train?
Thanks,
Tim
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I have seen two unfinished brass railbuses, in auctions, that I suspected were imported by King, both O scale and unpowered brass: A Mack railbuy and a Sykes
railbus. I would like to know just what all he imported.
I have some old catalogs of his. He would come to the Cal-Stewart meets in LA. They made a large number of electrics. Well made. Came close to buying some but never did. If I recall they made everything in the U.S. Don
I have a 1975 TTOS Trolley. That's the only one of his pieces I have.
Steve
A Mack railbuy.
Mack railbus was probably Kemtron.
I have also seen another Mack railbus model, and it is more detailed, and I think,
powered, which might be the Kemtron. And I never saw an ad for or heard of anybody offering a Sykes. (somebody in western Canada once offered a Mack railbus model in
a magazine ad, but I don't think anything came of it)
I have a NH (McGinnis) box cab that I bought from Madison Hardware on the last day of their official operation. I am pretty sure that David O. King made his trains in this country, but I could be wrong.
I thought King had his trains made in the orient, probably Japan, like those stray brass O scale cars and badly made steam locos that used to turn up. I'd have to dig one of those cars out to cite the brand on them.
I own two David King O gauge locomotives including a Milwaukee Road boxcab and a Milwaukee Road bipolar. As I recall, the bipolar uses a frame and motor similar if not identical to the frame and motor on Lionel's GG1.
Bob Nelson
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