Varney Locomotives

This is a list of every locomotive produced under the Varney name. Organized from smallest to largest and separated by types.

HO Scale Steam Locomotives

Steam locomotives in HO scale made up the majority of Varney's locomotive offerings. Some of them were produced right up to the end of use of the Varney name.

• "Dockside" Diecast Baltimore and Ohio C-16 0-4-0
• "Dockside" Plastic Baltimore and Ohio C-16 0-4-0
• "Casey Jones" 4-6-0 10 wheeler
• "Old Lady" 2-8-0 consolidation
• Prewar Bronze 0-8-0
• Prewar Bronze Reading 2-8-0 Consolidation
• Postwar Diecast Reading 2-8-0 Consolidation
• "Super" Postwar Diecast Reading 2-8-0 Consolidation
• Prewar Bronze 4-6-2 Pacific
• Late Prewar Diecast 4-6-2 Pacific
• Prewar Bronze Streamliner 4-6-2 Pacific
• Postwar Diecast 4-6-2 Pacific
• "Super" Postwar Diecast 4-6-2 Pacific
• Postwar Brass Streamliner 4-6-2 Pacific
• Prewar Bronze Streamliner 4-6-4 Hudson
• Postwar Brass 4-6-4 Hudson
• "Super" Postwar Brass 4-6-4 Hudson
• Prewar Bronze 2-8-2 Light Mikado
• Late Prewar Diecast 2-8-2 Light Mikado
• Postwar Diecast 2-8-2 Light Mikado
• "Super" Postwar Diecast 2-8-2 Light Mikado
• Postwar Brass 2-8-2 Heavy Mikado
• "Super" Postwar Brass 2-8-2 Heavy Mikado
• Postwar Brass 2-8-4 Berkshire
• "Super" Postwar Brass 2-8-4 Berkshire
• "Super Detail" Postwar Diecast 2-8-4 Berkshire
• Postwar Brass 4-8-4 Northern
• "Super" Postwar Brass 4-8-4 Northern
• Prewar Bronze Northern Pacific 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone
• Late Prewar Aluminum Northern Pacific 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone
• Postwar Brass Northern Pacific 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone

HO Scale Locomotive Tenders

Varney made a number of HO scale tenders to go with their steam locomotives. For most of production, tenders were sold separately from locomotives. This changed in the mid 50s, and locomotives like the Casey Jones 10 wheeler, Old Lady consolidation, and the super detail berkshire all came in kits with tenders included. History on exact tender production dates and all variations seems to be rather sparse. The rarest one, and possibly one of the rarest Varney items, is the prewar era streamliner tender kit.

• Prewar Wood coal tender
• Prewar Wood coal tender with embossed aluminum sides
• Prewar Streamliner wood coal tender
• Prewar Bronze vanderbilt oil tender
• Postwar Brass 6 axle coal tender
• Postwar Brass 6 axle coal tender with embossed sides
• Postwar Diecast vanderbilt oil tender
• Postwar Diecast slope back coal tender
• Postwar Diecast 32' coal tender
• Postwar Plastic 32' coal tender
• Postwar Plastic "long distance" 6 axle coal tender

O Scale Steam Locomotives

Varney only officially produced a Baltimore and Ohio 10 wheeler in O scale before selling the tooling, though other models were made using this tooling by General Models Corp and later All Nation. These are all 2 rail O and were made to exact 1:48 scale instead of being semi-scale like 3 rail "O gauge" models are.

• Brass 4-4-0 American
• Brass 4-4-2 Atlantic
• Brass Baltimore and Ohio 4-6-0 10 wheeler
• Brass 2-6-2 Prarie
• Brass 4-6-2 Pacific
• Brass 4-8-2 Mountain
• Brass 2-6-6-4

HO Scale Diesel Locomotives

Varney also offered some HO scale diesel locomotives. There were a few variants of F units with different motors, drives, as well as unpowered dummy units. No diesels were ever offered in O scale.

• Diecast EMD SW7 1000hp diesel switcher
• Plastic Alco RS11 (made by Mehano)
• Plastic EMD F3 A unit "lil raskal" children's train set
• Diecast EMD F3 A unit
• Diecast EMD F3 B unit
• Plastic EMD F3 A unit
• Plastic EMD F3 B unit
• Plastic EMD F7 A unit
• Plastic EMD F7 B unit
• Plastic GM Aerotrain set

HO Scale Electric Locomotives

Varney only ever offered 2 electric locomotives, both based on the Pennsylvania Railroad GG1.

• Prewar diecast "Streamlined Electric" 4-8-4 loosely based on the GG1
• Postwar diecast GG1 based on a Penn Line tooling

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