Wagner Car Company Catalogue Revised for 1960

During the 2019 EPTC Meet an EPTC member and friend mentioned about my reprinting the 1st Wagner Car Company Catalogue in the blog. See Post for Friday, April 18, 2014. His reason for mentioning this was the Current Lines web site was not longer available. Current Lines (CL) had purchased the Wagner Car Company from the widow of Rich Wagner upon his death.  The EPTC member asked me if I could reprint in this blog other old Wagner Car Company catalogues. He stated with the web page no longer avaiable it was extremely difficult to find out what Wagner and CL sideframes and parts had been available along with their descriptions.

I told him I have all of the Wagner catalogues. Many years ago before All-Nation Hobby Shop closed up, the display cases were being clean-up of old extraneous paperwork, etc. As one of the cases was being cleaned in a drawer below the display area were some old Wagner catalogues. I knew the empoyee and asked for the catalogues. They were given to me.

With the old catalogues given to me plus the ones purchased over the years, I now have all the catalogues up to and including #6. All the catalogues will be reprinted. The reason for replinting all the cataogues is so you'll be able to see the changes of the power trucks over time plus what was no longer available. What's important is both Rich Wagner and Ed Miller, after Rich, had a stock pile of old parts in order to be able built an old truck for a customer who may desire to double power and/or rebuild an old power truck.

The catalogue reprinted below looks like the 1st catalogue reprinted in this blog 5 years ago. However, on the front cover to the right of the "1957-1958" date is "Revised for 1960". Some of the catalogue revision and additions were print on "mimo" sheets. Also included are info about newly available O scale brass models plus sales sheets from All-Nation.

All the reprints will be presented in the Posts in a reduced size of approximately 695 x 900 pixels. Doing this will allow all the pages of a catalogue to be in a single Post. If this causes problems please let me know.

Each of the catalogues had a surprise, at least to me. In this catalogue was info regarding the Sydam Pacific Electric (PE) 1200 series cars. As far as I know the 1200 series combine and coach were the only O scale models imported by Sydam. If I were to have any PE cars, a pair of these would be the only PE cars to obtain.

Cheers,
Ed