A Doepke Caterpillar Bulldozer from Exceptional Toy Train Specialists

Tuesday, February 11, 2014
               (Still cold, but sunny)

A Doepke Caterpillar Bulldozer

from  Exceptional Toy Train Specialists

   I've had Doepke on my mind lately. The reason for this is that I've been adding material to several of my Facebook pages and my Linkedin account. I've been using my own Doepke toy photos and improving them in Photoshop. They're fantastic toys that were made to be played with and to last! I made my usual request to someone on ebay to use their Doepke bulldozer photos, but decided not to wait. So I went to Liveauctioneers, and there before me, were once photos from Ambrose Bauer.

Paul V. Ambrose and  Drew J. Bauer are the owners of Ambrose Bauer trains. If you rare ever looking to buy model trains or want to know about trains this is one of the finest resources to go to. But their "piece de resistance" (The best item in a series ) is their fine photography with large-sized images. I haven;t written about them lately, but I will.

  What's interesting for today is that I found a very nice Doepke Caterpillar D6 tractor at a Train auctioneer. They do periodically have other items besides trains, but I'm always visiting for their trains.

   Doepke was a great pressed steel company that made rugged and hands-on toys. I know, because I purchased several of them, and I played with them "a bit". It's embarrassing to admit that a grown man would try these toys out in his house! Of course in writing a blog, you can;'t see me turning red. These toys are big and heavy. This Doepke Caterpillar Yellow D6 Cat is almost 15" long (381 mm), and weighs between 5-6 pounds  (2.27-2.72 kg).

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So today's post was like looking for something  that you misplaced in your house,

 and finding something even more astounding that was also lost!

Thanks for dropping by,

and have a great part of the day,

wherever you may be.

Stacey

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There's a Train Car for That!

Friday, March 29, 2013

There's a Train Car for That!

   For today's post, I ended up using only 1 listing from AmbroseBauer Trains LLC. It turns out, there are probably more different train cars for carrying merchandise and materials that I originally had thought about.  Also, all of the cars were made by American Flyer. It turns out that American Flyer is still in business, but is owned by the Lionel Company. At one time, way back, American Flyer was a successful model train company.hit on hard times. However, it had trouble in the marketplace, and was eventually purchased by A.C. Gilbert, known most for their American erector sets. They owned American Flyer from 1938-1966, and the Lionel Company acquired it.

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   I don't see too many freight cars near me, so I don't see cars like the above. When I was young and we lived near a freight train track line, I'd see the usual coal, and oil tanker, but never the "rarer" searchlights, or  wrecker cars. Today, near me, I see the oil cars(rarely), the specialized compressed liquified gas cars,  the ship cargo  boxes, finished lumber , and of course, the car  transporters.  I'll probably add another post for other different cars that I didn't add today, in the near future.

Thanks for dropping by,

and have a great day, wherever you may be.

And by the way, 

Happy Easter, and Passover.

Stacey