LGB Wilson Bros. Circus Train - Conclusion

By 1994 Jim Marski of Depot G  Hobbies had successfully implemented his Circus Train within the American LGB customer base. The money was rolling in on as regular a basis as he was to announce the next shipment of the Circus cars. That had changed his life. Jim was to leave his humble abode in Winfield/IL and with the help of his proceeds from the LGB business bought himself a fine home in Pine/Colorado. He took the business with him, same name and all.

The next car to arrive at customers doors was the LGB 3084 DG Advertising Car

LGB 3084 Advertising Car - Courtesy of liveauction.com

The car was US$ 119.99 and shipped somewhere in spring of 1994. A few months later came the LGB 4068 Elephant Car

LGB 4068 Elephant Car - Courtesy of liveauctions.com

with a price of $ 89.00. As with the complete collection, all cars were individually numbered through 2000 and the one shown above displayed the individual number 1254 see below

Next car was the LGB 4269 DG flat car orange with handcrafted circus tableau wagon

LGB 4260 DG with handcrafted flat car, tableau wagon by Columbine Hobby Co
Courtesy of Reynaulds.com

That concluded the deliveries for 1994.

In 1995 Jim had two more items to deliver: the wonderful LGB 4075 DG Caboose for US$ 139.00

LGB 4075 DG Caboose - Courtesy of liveauctions.com

 and the "cherry on the cake "  Circus loco LGB Mogul 22191, US$ 599.00

LGB 22191 Mogul - Courtesy of BigTrainWorld.com

With that by the summer's end of 1995 the avid LGB collector was now the owner of this train set:

22191 Wilson Bros. 2-6-0 Steam Engine

3084 DG Advertising Car-Red

3180 DG Passenger Car-Green

3181 DG Colossal Combine Car

4060 DG Flat Car, blue

4067 DG Tent & supply car, orange

4068 DG Elephant stock car, white w/red trim

4075 DG Caboose, red & yellow

4080 DG Water car, silver & green

4160 DG Flat Car, yellow

4260 DG Flat Car, orange

4360 DG Flat car,silver 4360-DG Flat Car-Silver

1-Die Cast 1931 Model Sixty Diesel Caterpillar with Metal Tracks,(RARE)

3 hand crafted circus wagon by Columbine Hobby Co.

Unfortunately very few complete collections did survive. Most often the collection was torn apart either into separate items to be sold or the cute handmade circus cars and the wonderful die cast tractor ended up in some kids playground never to be found again... However one such COMPLETE Wilson Bros Circus set was just currently for sale at Only Trains/Minnesota for a decent US$ 1,000.00

And Jim Marski? He lived happily ever after in Colorado. He's still there dabbling in consulting and enjoying his life - thanks to a great LGB business idea at the right time in history.