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Thomas the Tank Engine sprung from the imaginations of Wilber Awdry and his two-year-old son, Christopher Awdry, in the days following Christmas 1942. The winter of 1942 were doubly dark day’s in the Awdry home, outside and across the Channel the Nazi menace held sway over most of Europe, inside Christopher was ill with the measles. Measles in 1942 was a serious illness and in previous year over one thousand people had died after contracting it....

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Trains and Toy Soldiers announces great news for S scale or S gauge electric railroad model enthusiast. We just received a large collection of new  S gauge boxcars, tank cars, coal cars, and flat cars. We even received a few specialty cars such as a caboose, a log dump car and a search light car. Perhaps the most exciting new S gauge electric model train engine is Southern 2-8-2 Mikado Steam Locomotive and Tender TMCC. All th...

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