TRAIN TIME: K-Line #K-41782 Hershey's Chocolate Town Water Tower (1992)

1992 was a banner year for K-Line Hershey's accessories because most of those accessories became available during this year. There were a couple of stragglers in the years to come but everything needed to make a proper Chocolate Town came out in '92. Their water tower was an easy one for K-Line to do: place a sticker on the tank, mold it in brown and silver, and voila' - instant Chocolate Town water tower! Be Blessed and Relish Life! Ed 

Some shots of my 1995 Hershey's layout with the water tower present

K-Line #K-41782 Hershey's Chocolate Town Water Tower

Marx - Marxville Accessories - Pt 3

Today we're featuring yet another of the Marxville plastic accessories that Lois Marx & Co., Inc. started producing back in the early 1950s to go with their line of 3-rail O-gauge trains. This accessory would continue being made until nearly the end of Marx production in the mid-1970s and is a ubiquitous railroad accessory and for my money far superior in design to the Plasticville water tank. Don't get me wrong, Plasticville had some terrific stuff and offered a wide variety of structures, many of which Marx never produced like an apartment building or radio station, but even as a kid when I had the Plasticville water tank for my trains I thought it looked funky.

Enjoy From The Berg's :)

#065 Water Tower with Spout

1. Red supports, silver-gray tank and spout
2. Yellow supports, red tank and spout
3. Green supports, yellow tank and spout
4. Gray supports, yellow tank and spout
5. White supports, red tank and spout
6. Black supports, black tank and spout

Production beginning or earliest appearance in a catalog: 1950

Marx logo: None

Size: 8 ¼” (21cm) H

Description: Plastic round tank, 3 ½” (8.9cm) H x 4 ¼” (10.8cm) Dia, sitting atop four plastic supports w/square plastic feet; moveable spout; plastic ladder