Play Set includes 39 piecesIncludes Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Jessie figuresPlasticAges 2-5Imported.

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Years ago excited crowds would be thrilled by the appearance of circus and show trains. They knew a spectacle of grand proportions was coming to town. Here’s your chance to view the last two modern circus trains and the only carnival that still travels by rail! Circus World Museum at Baraboo, Wisconsin reenacts an old fashioned circus train each year. The highly prized cargo of antique circus wagons from the museum’s extensive collection is loaded aboard railroad cars by tradit (more…)

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Stanley is the newest tank engine on the Island of Sodor, and he’s got a big job: To restore the lost town of Great Waterton in time for the Sodor Day celebration. With your help, Stanley is sure to succeed.

Help Stanley rebuild the town! Stanley is the newest tank engine on the Island of Sodor, and he’s got a big job: to restore the lost town of Great Waterton in time for the Sodor Day celebration. Stanley is a really useful engine (more…)

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The genesis of the motion picture medium is vividly re-created in this unprecedented collection of the cinema’s formative works. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise. An animated rendering of Eadweard Muybridge’s primitive motion studies (1877-85) begins the program, immediately defining the compound appeal of cinema as both a scientific marvel (more…)

Review

The more settled farming community of rural Vermont is the scene of Nancy Means Wright’s THE GREAT CIRCUS TRAIN ROBBERY. Zoe is still trying to get into her older brother’s Northern Spy Club, but her assignment of observing the man next door is more boring than mysterious. Then her best friend, Spencer, reports that one of the cars of his prized antique circus train has been stolen, and Zoe is on the case at once. More complications ensue as Zoe and Spencer get involved (more…)

The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the “golden era” of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation’s favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889-1971. For this volume, author and illustrator Mark Wegman has researched (more…)

By popular demand! This sequel to our original Sears volume contains full-sized authorized reproductions of every electric train page from the great Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogs from 1950 through 1969. Organized by year, the book features thousands of trains, sets and accessories in all gauges are beautifully illustrated including such great brands as Lionel, American Flyer, Marx, Kusan and others, with original prices! A “Must Have”.

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