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Hess 575 set – no number cars Made for the American market because of the cow catcher on this loco, the rolling stock seems like it deserves a better locomotive than the old 575. Many variations of these cars exist, both numbered and without numbers. This set was sold to other Nuremberg toy manufacturers who marketed under their own brands. This set has no numbers on passenger cars and box cars are only marked “No. 10”. Loco is a little unusual in that it only has 3 sets of wheels. |
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Hess set with 575 loco and 1035 cars The 1035 cars were originally produced with the 1035 locomotive which used a combination of tab and slot construction plus soldering. At some point Hess decided to offer these cars with the 575 locomotive and this is one of them. This is one of very few Hess toys in my collection with a complete ownership history. Originally purchased by a traveling concert musician for his son, this train was handed down in the family and sat on improvised tracks on a fireplace mantle. I obtained the complete ownership history and inserted the information into one of the passenger cars for some future owner’s amusement. It was originally bought from a retailer in the United States. The set shown has the passenger cars marked with “1035” along with the 575 marked loco. |
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A later produced 575 series set consisting of loco, blue and red passenger cars, unusual 575 tipping gondola and goods wagon. | |||
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Hess lithographed big wheel flywheel driven locomotives Two locomotives from the 575 series and one from the 300 series. Both of the 575 series locos have the same size boiler and cab but the frames, wheels and flywheels are a different size. The 300 series with large wheels was soon discontinued in favor of unpowered, smaller, under the frame wheels. A clockwork version of the 300 was available with cast wheels outside the frame. |
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Hess 575 big wheel variation Hess was known to make whole toys and parts of toys, especially stamped tinplate wheels, for other Nuremberg toymakers. Both of these big wheels are on 575 locomotives, but the top wheeled loco has been observed with Issmayer rolling stock. Perhaps this locomotive with different wheels was made for them to differentiate between brands. Both of these wheels measure 1.9375” (7.6 cm). |
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Hess 575 wheel variation 2 and 3 (not in my collection) Variation 2 - Another wheel variation for the big wheel 575 locomotive using an older style wheel. This style wheel was previously used on prelitho locomotives. Apparently left over wheel stock was used in the transition from prelitho to litho style locomotives. Curiously, the wheels do not appear marked with patent number or “patented” as with earlier style wheels. Variation 3 – A big wheel locomotive produced for Carette and marked “906” and with the “G.C.&Co. N” marked on the back of tender. This piece is very unusual in that the tender was included on the back of the locomotive. Most big wheel 575 locomotives did not have a tender included.
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