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December 27, 2018 at 12:12 am #6192

peggyrothschild
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Mike Adams once told me about owning a toy train back when he was 5 or 6 that was lettered for the Sunshine Special. This would have been in the last 1920’s so I started doing some web searches to see what manufacturers made this famous train. What I found was Haftner made the set by merely lettering their inexpensive Overland passenger set for the Sunshine Special. The cars were made of lithographed tin with the passenger sets made in both red and light yellow cars.

The origin set came with a cast iron or tin steam locomotive, a tender, two coaches and an observation car. These aren’t rare as they were made for many years by Haftner and show up on eBay often.

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December 27, 2018 at 5:37 pm #9203

Bud Moss
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Would have made any young boy’s Christmas in the early 1900s!

December 28, 2018 at 2:50 pm #9204

luisflierl26
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thats cool
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