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Battery Operated Train Toys

"The Golden Creek Work Crew" set


The Golden Creek Work Train is a curious little set.  It is a typical battery-operated set made in China, and it looks to be based on a European style narrow-gauge train used in mining or logging work.  The coal elevator is actually a chute.  Drop in the round "lumps of or" on top and it rolls out from the side, hopefully into the ore car.  A cute toy, though it is cheap and not the kind of thing that lasts more than a few weeks.  The cars would be useful for an O gauge railway, as scenery for a mine.  Not a bad little set for ten bucks!

Oddvar the Cat checks out the boxed set

Here is the train, complete wit ha small coal elevator.  (Frog and house in background are table decorations, not part of the set)

The locomotive looks to be based on a European narrow-gauge type.  In scale, it is close to O Gauge.

The small Narrow-gauge type tender

Another look at the small tender.

Rear of locomotive. To open the battery box, you must unscrew the back panel.  

Here are the crane car and low-side car.  The design of the low-side car is similar to the German flat car (with containers) in our TT Scale Section.

The ore car

Ore car in dumping position

Straight track.  The gauge of the track is O.

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