{"id":2951,"date":"2017-12-15T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2017-12-15T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T03:36:59","slug":"wood-is-good-wooden-lego-trains-of-the-1940s-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/15\/wood-is-good-wooden-lego-trains-of-the-1940s-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood is Good: wooden LEGO trains of the 1940s & 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Niels Thomsen<\/a> saw we shared his 1960s Christmas card<\/a> the other day and, in response, posted pictures from his collection of LEGO wooden trains! LEGO made wooden toys from 1932 through 1960, the year in which a fire ravaged the wooden toy warehouse.<\/p>\n

LEGO made a wide variety of wooden trains, and these represent a few of them. They appear to be from the period of the 1940s and 1950s. Enjoy these images of historic wooden LEGO trains, and be sure to thank Niels for sharing. While you’re at it, check out his wonderfully diverse collection of wooden toys! (click here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Niels even photographed the engines alongside one another. This really gives you an idea of the variety of sizes these trains came in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Niels Thomsen saw we shared his 1960s Christmas card the other day and, in response, posted pictures from his collection of LEGO wooden trains! LEGO made wooden toys from 1932 through 1960, the year in which a fire ravaged the wooden toy warehouse. LEGO made a wide variety of wooden trains, and these represent a … Continue reading Wood is Good: wooden LEGO trains of the 1940s & 1950s<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1025,"featured_media":2957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[361,362,462,466,464,457,463,461,460,178,465,78,249,458,459,359],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-1940s","tag-1950s","tag-antique-lego","tag-brickalick","tag-early-lego","tag-engine","tag-esso","tag-fifties","tag-forties","tag-lego-history","tag-niels-thomsen","tag-steam","tag-steam-locomotive","tag-wood","tag-wooden","tag-wooden-toys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/wooden-train-crop.jpg?fit=1337%2C722&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8egNP-LB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brickmodelrailroader.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}