Electro Train by Mizuno

(Japan)

Boxed set with brown battery powered loco, wheel arrangement 0-4-4 (rear wheels are dummies). The box car (6 inches long) has sliding doors and reads East-West Trans Continental. The caboose (five inches) reads East-West TC, and the loco (7.5 inches) East-West E-375. Battery carried within locomotive.

Mizuno Electro Train boxed set

Another East West set by Mizuno, with blue battery powered 0-4-4 loco, although the loco only runs on four wheels, the four trailing wheels being dummies. The loco number E375 appears below the cab side window. Powered by battery controller designed as a station.

Mizuno Electro Train East West freight set with timber flatcar, gasoline tanker and caboose

Mizuno battery powered blue Rock Island Line 0-4-0 locomotive with matching 4 wheeled blue Eagle Oil Co Gasoline tanker, the tethered tanker containing a battery (D cell?) to power the locomotive.

Mizuno battery powered Rock Island Line locomotive and Gasoline tanker

Mizuno battery powered Rock Island Line locomotive and Eagle Oil Co Gasoline tanker

Set 7050 by Mizuno, with brown battery powered 0-4-4 loco, although the loco only runs on four wheels, the four trailing wheels being dummies. The loco number E375 appears below the cab side window, with East-West on the bunker.

Mizuno Electro Train East West freight set with box car and caboose

The third colour variation of the Mizuno 0-4-4 E375 East-West locomotive, powered by one internal battery (looks to be D cell).

Mizuno Electro Train East-West Locomotive

Mizuno Electro Train black 0-4-4 E375 East-West tank locomotive

Individually boxed 'Express' locomotive by Mizuno. The black loco is again 0-4-4 with dummy trailing wheels, and appears to be a floor toy, with tin wheels. The same number (E375) appears on the cab sides, with Express printed on the bunker. Powered by one battery.

Mizuno Electro Train black Express locomotive, E375

Mizuno produced other tinplate toys including these Electromobile motor cars, all approximately eight inches in length. The cars feature battery powered motors with working head and tail lights, and steerable front wheels.

Mizuno Electromobile Buick

Mizuno Electromobile Lincoln (blue)

Mizuno Electromobile Lincoln (red)

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