Books about Williams Trains

[coolwaldo]

Does anyone know of a book about about the history of Williams Trains. Thanks!

[Joe Satnik]

Dear CW,

Well, early history, anyway.  (c1987)

isbn     0897780620  



If you are a subscriber to any of the Kalmbach magazines you can access this list of W/WBB magazine articles (mostly "Classic Toy Trains") back to 1990.

http://trc.trains.com/Train%20Magazine%20Index.aspx?view=SearchResults&q=williams+electric+trains+

If I recall correctly, Williams didn't maintain a library of old catalogs, so getting a complete set of catalogs to build a history would be a challenge.  

I value the 7 catalogs (booklets and folded posters from 2003 to 2005) that I received through the mail.  

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Joe Satnik

[phillyreading]

About the best type of catalog or brochure on Williams trains was their sale papers like Joe Satnik describes, even before 2001 Williams only had a small fold-up brochure about their products.
Bachmann now has a catalog on Williams.

Not sure if any company does a price guide. To the best of my knowledge there is no paperback guide for Williams. Maybe Kalmbach Publishing, the company that produces Greenberg guides will do a Williams guide sometime.

What I have seen is on Choo Choo Auctions website, www.choochooauctions.com ,
under the price guide for O gauge trains, click on Williams. It gives you many of the Williams items numbers and what they sold for.

Lee F.