#485

c1949-1954

This brightly colored toy features Disney's Mickey Mouse driving his very own.

• Patent No. 2,069,181.

• Copyright Walt Disney Productions.

• 1954 original retail price was .79¢ in the East and .85¢ in the South and West.

• This toy is a new litho version of 1938's #432 Mickey Mouse choo choo 

• The following poem can be found in one of Fisher-Price's mini-catalogues reguarding the #454 Donald Duck Drummer and #485 Mickey Mouse Choo-Choo:

Donald Duck is the drummer boy
Who fills the air with sounds of joy
As Mickey Mouse steers his choo-choo train. Ringing the bell with might and main.

#444

1951-1954

The Puffy Engine is definetly a little engine "that could". The wooden engine has yellow plastic piston arms that move round and round and a realistic "puff-puff" sound when the engine rolls. The engine a bright colors and a happy smile on the front.

• Patent Pending.

• Copyright Fisher-Price Toys, Inc.

• 1954 original retail price was .75¢ in the East and .85¢ in the South and West.

#617

c1957-1959

Though Fisher-Price has made lots and lots of different train engines over the years, the #617 Whistling Engine is very distinctive with special exclusive movement all of its own. When pulled, the engine's boiler pumps in and out, making a whistling noise. The train was initially introduced with a teddy bear engineer in the cab. The last two years it was made, the engine was colored differently and had no engineer in the cab.

• Patent Pending.

#999

1958-1970

This is a 4-piece wooden train with cars that are connected together by couplers on each end of the cars, enabling a child to rearrange the position/order of the train cars. The train engine has a smiley face on the front with eyes that roll. The engine makes a "chug-chug" sound and has pistons attached to the back wheels that pump in and out of wooden cylinders when the toy is pulled. The train measures 27" long, 5" high, and 5-1/4" wide when linked together. The train cars had one of four different colored plastic hooks on the ends to link together. In 1963, the colors of the train changed.

Accessories: 

• 1958-1962 (All roll on yellow wooden wheels):

  • Engine - Wooden train engine with a black boiler with 2 yellow stripes around it. *See variations below.

  • Gondola - Black wooden 4-sided rectangular gondola car with paper lithographs on the sides of red, white, and yellow zig-zag lines. *See variations below.

  • Cattle Car - Wooden cattle car with a black rectangular wooden base, a red rectangular wooden roof, square wooden walls on the ends that have yellow paper lithographs with 2 orange lines on all 4 sides, and 2 sliding doors on both sides. *See variations below.

  • Caboose - Small square wooden caboose with a black base and yellow roof. One window has an attached brakeman figure. *See variations below.

• 1963-1970 (All roll on red wooden wheels):

  • Engine - Wooden train engine with a round boiler with a paper lithograph wrapped around it of a red, white, and blue boiler. The engine has a square wooden cab with a black wooden roof marked "HUFFY PUFFY" and red paper lithographs on the sides of the cab of 2 blue windows on both sides marked "999" in red under the windows. *See variations below. 

  • Gondola - White wooden 4-sided rectangular gondola car with paper lithographs on the sides of different colored diamond shapes, each with a white letter inside the diamond that forms the word "RAILROAD". *See variations below.

  • Cattle Car - Wooden cattle car with a green rectangular wooden base, a red rectangular wooden roof, square wooden walls on the ends that have blue paper lithographs with two black and yellow lines on all four sides, and sliding doors on both sides. *See variations below.

  • Caboose - Small square wooden caboose with a green base and black roof. One window has an attached brakeman figure. *See variations below.

  • Variations: The train cars had one of four different colored plastic hooks on the ends to link together.