Clean-up for the new year

Despite a very busy, but enjoyable, Christmas period I managed to sort out many of my toy trains which have been stuffed away in random boxes for years.  So now everything of each brand is supposed to be in the same box.  Supposed to be.........  I also cleared off the table that I used for the Cit-in car display last year in order to display some of my trains and cars.  It will also come in handy for photographing some eBay items that I am planning to sell.  For my first display I decided to set up my small collection of Lone Star Locos push-along trains, some of which have featured on this blog previously.  Very good fun, until I realised that there are quite a few missing, and I have no idea where they are.  Hmmmm.  Anyway, the small display looked good, and here are some photos.

These were my first trains, given to me when I as about 3 or 4.  They were also the first toy trains that I started collecting as an adult.  Ah, nostalgia.


Although Lone Star was an English brand, some items were made under licence here in Australia.  Part of the track on this little layout is the Aussie version.  Here's a picture of the underside of the tracks, showing both the English and Aussie versions.

I've just bought some Tri-ang TT items, so I think I'll make this the theme of the next display.  Hopefully I won't discover that I'm also missing some of that!