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Whittle Shortline is a Toy company owned and operated in the United States . PRODUCTS
The high quality woods used make Whittle Shortline toys more expensive than many other brands that use the same type of track. However, they are compatible with brands such as BRIO . As of recent, the company has introduced a wooden toy train line based upon The Little Engine That Could , as a domestic alternative to Thomas The Tank Engine . HISTORY During the mid- 1990s , former US Air Force pilot Mike Whitworth received a compound Mitre Saw as a gift from his wife, ostensibly for doing home improvement projects. The saw sat unused for almost two years, when Whitworth got the inspiration to produce toy trains for friends and family. By 1997, word of his craftsmanship had reached local retailers, who in turn asked that he make the wooden trains on a professional basis. In 1999 the production moved from the family home some miles to the historic building of the Frisco Hotel in Valley Park , a suburb of St. Louis . By 2005 most of the production was moved north to Louisiana, Missouri . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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