HO Q27 Megow Pennsylvania 70GR Heavyweight Passenger Coach - HO Craftsman Kit With Trucks
Multimedia Model Kit, Box Condition: Exc
Rare Megow kit from the 1930s. Kit features high quality pre-decorated sides with gold Pennsylvania letter, numbers and window frames and tuscan red elsewhere. The sides are crisply embossed with girder and rivet detail. Features correct trucks, pre-cut and milled hardwood roof and other wooden parts as needed, wood and metal stock, clear window material, diaphragms, stairs, full size plans/instructions, a paper envelope with detail parts and more. The kit has never been started. Inventoried 100% complete including instructions. Fred Megow was a famous pioneer in the model aircraft field from the late 1920s and a very early manufacture for HO scale trains in the 1930s. His product lines of semi-prefabricated, solid and stick and tissue kits won him national and extensive world wide distribution - possibly the first modern model manufacture to achieve this. His fascinating story involves trying novel and untested marketing ideas in the Great Depression, followed my explosive world-wide growth. Mr. Megow was a true pioneer in the early days of modeling and a leader in the low price field so that every boy could afford a kit during those difficult times. Megow also produced scale operating train and trackside kits, ship models (large and small) and automotive subjects. Megow's catalogs claim that they were pioneers in HO scale, and there is documentation to support this fact. Megow's early HO train kits served not only to promote this now-popular scale nationally, but were among the very first train kits. Model train kits were responsible for the explosion in model railroad popularity in the late 1930s - please see the article in this website about these kits.
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