For additional background information, with illustrations, please refer to the web pages of TCA Western Division Index of Manufacturers and the Ives Trains Society.
Ives was the first US producer of 0 gauge toy trains, in 1910, followed by Lionel in 1915 and American Flyer, 1918. Ives produced boxed sets, locomotives and passenger cars marked Wanamaker Railway Lines in 1924, for the John Wanamaker Company of Philadelphia department store chain.
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