Frame from 50th Anniversary Scale Hudson

NOS Streamline Pullman shell (car plate never attached)

Hello, everyone!

Thank you for looking at Encore Toy Trains' eBay store and auction listings.

My business is somewhat unique, because:

I primarily sell parts that cover the spectrum of most brands, and eras, of classic toy trains.

Complete pieces of rolling stock or locomotives make up a very small fraction of what I have.

My inventory includes:

      > Modern parts that were on the assembly line at the Lionel Facory in Michigan when it closed.  If you want to re-body a modern car, I have them.
 
      > MPC era parts. Some of these are hard to find.  

      > Fundimentions parts, and some accessories. Big bits, and little bits. 

      > Post war trains. I have many NOS Lionel parts from the Hillside Factory and Madison Hardware: Gears, handrails, frames, boiler shells, car body shells, accessory bases, accessory castings.  Also a very large assortment of used, good condition parts from every brand in the post-war era.

      > Pre-war parts. Some of these are also NOS from Hillside and Madison Hardware.  Couplers, trucks, gears, siderods, boiler fronts, car body sides, car body roofs, wheels, etc.  For the restorer, there are deteriorated car bodies and frames, accessory bases, parts, roofs, and mechanisms.

Due to the way I acquired my inventory, I have NO catalog, inventory, or price list. My storage is packed tight with little chance to move things around. The variety includes everything from single pieces (like shells for rare pieces), to very large lots of NOS parts (10,000 handrails, wrapped in newpaper from 1950.) Condition of these items is just as diverse...from NEW NOS Pre-war, to rusted junk only a few years old.

I am digging through my storage area, and listing items as I find them.  I hope that you will add me to your 'Favorite Sellers' list, and subscribe to my newletters. I will broadcast new caches of material as I prepare to list them whenever I can, to alert you to what's coming.

A little about the owner:

I have been an operator of Lionel trains (actually my first train was a wind-up Marx) since I was 4 years old.  More than 50 years later, I'm still finding and buying items I wish I had been able to have 'when I was a kid.'  My personal layout is about 12 x 16'.  I don't have C-9 items...because I live by my store's motto: "RUN your classic toy trains!" (TM)

My business began when I realized that I had more parts and pieces purchased from garage sales and swap meets than I could ever use.  With the 'hobby season' in Oregon being chronically rainy, I don't really like hauling my goods to swap meets and shows...so I started experimenting with selling on eBay.  Things went pretty well...and I learned a lot.

THEN IT HAPPENED - I 'fell into' an opportunity to buy a huge accumulation of material from an out-of-business hobby shop.  It was a giant gamble: I actually could not see 90% of what I was buying because it was packed into two 40 foot long shipping containers.  A fast second mortgage on the house, contracting for cross-country RAIL shipment (yes, intermodal!), and locating a crane to lift the containers off of the trucks at my location; and I was in business.

Now...all I have to do is sell the roughly 20 tons of 'stuff' that I bought.  I hope you find some items you need - and a few you didn't know you needed!  Jump in and repair or upgrade your aging items.  It's not very hard.  Then, "RUN your classic toy trains"(TM) - that's why they were built!!!

Yours in the hobby,

Cary