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American Flyer is a brand of toy train and model railroad manufactured in the United States.

The Chicago era, 1907–1938.

K-Line Electric Trains is a brand name of O gauge and S gauge model railway locomotives, rolling stock, and buildings.

Formerly the brand name under which Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based MDK Inc. sold its products, K-Line was then acquired by Sanda Kan, a Chinese toy manufacturer that formerly acted as K-Line's subcontractor.

Sanda Kan had licensed the use of the K-Line brand and intellectual property to Lionel.

More recently, the Lionel license expired, and Sandra Kan sold the dies to several other companies, with some going to each of Atlas, Bachmann, and RMT.

MTH Electric Trains, a privately held company based in Columbia, Maryland that is formerly known as Mike's Train House, is an American toy train and model railroad designer, importer, and manufacturer.

A toy train is a toy that represents a train.

It is distinguished from a model train by an emphasis on low cost and durability, rather than scale modeling.

A toy train can be as simple as a pull toy that does not even run on track, or it might be operated by clockwork or a battery.

By the way, many of today's model trains might be signed as toy ones as well, providing they are not strictly scale ones in favor of a robustness appropriate for children or a reasonable manufacturing.

A scale model is most generally a physical representation of an object, which maintains accurate relationships between all important aspects of the model, although absolute values of the original properties need not be preserved.

This enables it to demonstrate some behavior or property of the original object without examining the original object itself.

The most familiar scale models represent the physical appearance of an object in miniature, but there are many other kinds.