If you are looking for high-quality historically authentic railroad trains, look no further. We bring to the N-Scale hobbyist a miniature with excellent attention to details and one that brings history alive to all ages. Wheels of Time brand products are built-to-order to best serve all of our clients and to bring you more trains that captures your imagination. Wheels of Time Custom brand are short productions built-to-order products that tend to be more regional in interest and are geared for the collector at heart. All of our products have all the jazz that make the N-Scaler say "Wow!"

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Company History

Founded by Matthew Young in fall of 1995. Frankly, I didn't know much about manufacturing. But I always had a passion for trains and miniature ones. Remember the Sears and Roebuck catalog with Aurora model trains?

There were a number of key people who helped me sparked my imagination in developing a business of making model trains. In one sense, I have always been involved with making model trains. My dad would set up our Marx 027 “three rail” train set around the Christmas tree. However since the train set was only set up during Christmas time, I decided to develop my own trains so I wouldn’t have to wait for that one special time. As a first grader, I made my first 3-dimensional model of a cardboard diesel switcher from model railroad plans shown in hobby magazines. My dad would supply the card stock - IBM punch cards. My mom would take me to the local library, so I could read the Model Railroader magazines and Train Shed Cyclopedias. Using the railroad car drawings from those periodicals, I made cardboard models. Fast forward to 1994, after working as a Civil Engineer for a number of years, I was deliberating whether to start or not start a business of making model trains. Bruce, a friend of mine, said, “I think you should take this seriously.”

One day, I was visiting the late Richard Buike of Trackside Trains in Burlingame (California). We were discussing that N-Scale passenger trains were almost non-existent. And if they were any, they certainly didn’t look right. I simply told him that I was going to produce some high quality historically authentic passenger railroad cars to fill the hole in the market. I was a little surprised at my commitment when I said this. Alas, about half-way through 1996, I produced something like 100 brass etched kits of the 1950 Pullman-Standard “10-6” sleeping car. The car body was pre-soldered together. Later, I produced lots of “ready-to-run” versions of the same car with a variety of realistic paint schemes that railroads actually used. Let me tell you, after soldering the 19th of those car bodies, it became real monotonous. That was Wheels of Time beginnings. We hope you enjoyed reading it.