Vintage Rio Grande Boxcar & Plasticville Supermarket & Frosty Bar Kits lionel

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Vintage Rio Grande Boxcar & Plasticville Supermarket & Frosty Bar Kits Rio Grande BoxcarD & RGW60649Original AHM BoxAssociated Hobby Manufacturers, Inc.Approx. size of Boxcar: 5 5/8 inch x 1 3/8 inch x 2 1/8 inch(height includes wheels)Condition: see photoslightly soiled from years of storagehook attached to wheels on end is missingBox is soilededges and corners wornrandom tears, creases and folds***********************************************Frosty BarPlasticville, USAThe original plastic villageMade to scale for popular size trainsBachmann Bros.. IncPhiladelphia, PaFrosty Bar: FB-1Original Box with 7 partsLooks like the roof, base, backwall, 2 side walls, Counter, and Frosty Bar Logo SignApprox. box size: 7 1/2 inch x 5 1/2 inch x 1 1/4 inchCondition: see photosoriginal box is in rough shapebox and parts are soiled from years of storagewater stains on boxrandom tears, folds and creases to box******************************************************* Super Market Kit Plasticville, USAThe original plastic villageMade to scale for popular size trainsBachmann Bros.. IncPhiladelphia, PaSuper Market Kit: SM-7 Original Box with 6 partsLooks like the roof, backwall, 2 side walls, front wall with door and plasticville logo signApprox. box size: 9 3/4 inch x 4 1/4 inch x 1 3/4 inchCondition: see photosoriginal box is in rough shapebox and parts are soiled from years of storagewater stains on boxrandom tears, folds and creases to box ******************************************************* Plasticville is a brand of plastic toy train building sold in the United States, made by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Bachmann Industries since 1947 (although they were first advertised in 1946).Plasticville buildings are a simple design, made of walls that snap together, permitting them to be assembled without glue and easily disassembled again for storage. Out of the box, Plasticville buildings are usually two-tone, with building walls of one color and the doors, windows and roof molded out of a different colored plastic. With few exceptions, Plasticville buildings are styled after 1950s suburban buildings, and the product line has not changed since the late 1950s.Most Plasticville buildings are 1:64 scale with 1:48 scale doors, a design compromise that allows them to be used with O gauge, O27 gauge, or S gauge train layouts without looking far off-scale. This allowed one product line to serve Lionel's low-end and high-end product lines as well as American Flyer's product line in the 1950s. Later, as HO scale gained popularity, Bachmann produced a line of 1:87 scale buildings for that standard.The first Plasticville product was a plastic fence, first marketed as a Christmas tree accessory. When Bachmann found out consumers were using its product on train layouts, it also added some other accessories such as trees, bushes, and bridges. By 1950, Bachmann had added houses and stores to the product line, and Plasticville quickly became the most popular brand of train buildings on the U.S. market. Bachmann added several buildings to the product line every year until 1958. Some of these buildings were of Bachmann design, but others came from competing product lines that Bachmann absorbed in the mid-1950s.In the late 1950s, mass-market interest in trains declined, with other pastimes, such as slot cars, gaining at their expense. Bachmann responded in 1963 by introducing a line of accessories for slot car track.Although not all pieces were manufactured every year, the Plasticville line has remained commercially available since the 1950s. PLEASE VISIT OUR EBAY STORE AND OTHER AUCTIONS !!!!SHIPPING WILL BE $8.00 IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S. *** WE COMBINE SHIPPING ***PLEASE WAIT FOR COMBINED INVOICE PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED WITHIN 3 DAYS OF RECEIPT OF INVOICE. MUST HAVE A PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO PURCHASE! THIS IS ... read more

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