Hello train world .
Any Thorley Hoople fans out there ? I was very fortunate to find this Hoople train out at York . George (Tad) Cody built the Thorley Hoople line from 1965-1969 . There is an excellent article about the Thorley Hoople trains in the TCA Quarterly October 1969 , Vol 15 #4 ..available online for TCA members.
This train is # 1010 or the tenth train made .... last train with the early cars ... wood tops, squared off windows, sand cast trucks, hand fabricated end railings etc ( later cars have metal tops , arched windows, die cast trucks, cast end railings etc) .
Engine seems to have a quartering issue as it lugs along , rod binding a bit . I've reduced the rear rod bushing and added lapping compound to work it in... has anyone out there had similar issues with their Hoople's?
Does anyone have any loose sets of Hoople wheel sets ? or one truck ? need to complete a later car .
There were no couplers with the set ... so I just added link and paper clip ....unknown if they had a more refined system.
Does any one have a copy of the Hoolpe 1966 or 1968 catalogs they can post images of ? or I like to buy a xerox copy of thank you .
Cheers Carey
later car with curved windows , front car ....first 10 sets of cars had the squared windows as found on the rear coach 
left car early hand fabricated end railings ...right later coach with cast railings
left car wood roof ..note screws on side to hold it on ... car on right metal roof screw on top to cross brace
later die cast truck
early sand cast truck
later coach wood floor and markings ...any loose wheel sets out there to complete ? thank you
link and paper clip ..did they have a better way originally ?
