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479: No Such Thing As Fake Coal

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Earliest Model Train Belonged to Goethe

There's another German collection which is maybe the earliest ever model train belonged to the poet Goethe. Probably the most famous model railways in the world have to be the ones that we see in Thomas' tank engine. They used to have offices for Thomas' tank Engine and they had an official Sir Topham Hat who would write letters back to the children. The fat controller was always called to your name, but they kind of phased out the fat controller. Is it Craig Glendale? Yes. He's in the cartoons. And we know someone who was the real-life Sir TophAm Hat. Edith Cernci for the Guinness World Records.

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