Rare Classic TOMY Toy Trains $10 Trash & Treasure InterCity 125 Vs Thomas The Tank

A $10 tub of mixed mystery toys has some hidden toy train treasures within. A rare early Thomas The Tank with Annie & Clarabel is awesome but a TOMY Intercity 125 is possibly even more amazing. It's a curious mix of toys and some great flashbacks to earlier times. The Matchbox Mini Ha Ha is awesome but the Qantas playing cards are rubbish. The real mystery to these toys is why was so much damaged? The TOMY train track has a very similar damage pattern going on around the track joining area. The TOMY track has not gone brittle so this style of damage is hopefully something the audience can work out. The question is did I get my $10 value from the trashed toys, or is everything I picked up junk.

InterCity 125 was the brand name of British Rail's diesel-powered High Speed Train (HST) fleet, which was built from 1975 to 1982 and was introduced in 1976. An InterCity 125 train is made up of two Class 43 power cars, one at each end of a fixed formation of Mark 3 carriages (the number of carriages varies by operator). The train operates at speeds of up to 125 mph (201 km/h) in regular service, and has an absolute maximum speed of 148 mph (238 km/h), making it the fastest diesel-powered train in the world, a record it has held from its introduction to the present day. Initially the sets were classified as Classes 253 and 254. A variant of the power cars operates in Australia as part of the XPT.

There have been many model and toy guises of the InterCity 125. One of the first in the UK was by Hornby Railways, which launched its first model version in 1977. This model was supplied with an incorrect length Mk3 coach which was shortened to allow the model to reliably negotiate the smallest radius curves. This was done by removing one of the 8 side windows rather than scaling the whole length. It was later released in InterCity 'Swallow' livery, Great Western green-and-white, Midland Mainline and Virgin Trains. Lima released its version of the InterCity 125 in 1982, of which the Mark 3 coaches were correct to the lengths of the real-life coaches and included the guard's coach. Hornby eventually followed suit in the late-1990s, when its short Mark 3 coaches were replaced by correct scale length ones but omitted the guard's coach. Hornby released a totally new version of the InterCity 125 power cars in late 2008. Dapol produces an N gauge model of the train. Railway Shop (Hong Kong) produces a T gauge model (1:450 scale). The TOMY InterCity 125 toy I have may be quite rare and highly collectable.

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