Vintage Wind-Up Tin Toy Train Engine

A chunky toy steam locomotive in vintage wind-up tin style. It has a square cab with a flat overhanging roof and a round window, a banded boiler with a steam dome, a flared smokestack, a round smokebox front with a headlamp, a pointed cowcatcher, two pairs of spoked wheels linked by a coupling rod, and a figure-eight wind-up key at the back of the cab. Clockwork toy trains were one of the great toys of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from simple floor trains to elaborate tinplate r…

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