HOGE # 900 3 unit passenger train from the 30's in excellent condition
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This beautiful PREWAR 1930's HOGE Train Set includes a # 900 locomotive in chrome with blue trim, a chrome and blue trim coach car, a chrome and blue trim observation car, and one vestibule in chrome. The motor is missing from the engine casing. I was told the motor can be replaced by a Lionel motor from the same vintage. Excellent original blue paint trim on all three pieces. Cars are in excellent original condition. Chrome is bright and is in excellent plus condition. Vestibule is in excellent condition. No oxidation, no rust, a few minor scratches from 76+ years of aging. Hoge history : Pronouced 'hoagy', the company was originally founded in 1909 in Manhattan, NY, by Hampden Hoge to produce office supplies. Although the company retained his name, Hampden Hoge subsequently left the company in 1919, thus the toy trains which bear his name, were not his idea. Henry Katz had started in the toy business as an employee for Ferdinand Strauss in 1917 and by 1928 had started his own toy business. In 1931, Katz dissolved his own company and came to manage Hoge`s new toy division. The firm contracted construction of their toy designs to Mattatuck Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Conn. Train products included stamped steel passenger and animated circus cars as well as electric and clockwork locomotives made to run on three rail 'O' gauge
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