Collection: Walthers

Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., was founded by Bill Walthers (1893 - 1967) in Milwaukee, WI in 1932 - but really, it started years earlier, when seven-year-old Bill Walthers got his first taste of the hobby with a small, wind-up toy train for Christmas. He continued with the hobby and eventually had an attic layout comprised primarily of his own scratch-built creations. After he wrote a series of articles on building train control and signaling systems, he got so many letters from other modelers that he began manufacturing the signals and track for standard and 'O' gauge.