Rarest Plarail/Tomy Trains

....These ones are all after the mail hook was changed to a second tree, I know at least one exists in the earlier mail pole form. Add in the Tomica World one, and the Thomas version was released in both styles, although the mail hook version didn't make it out of Japan before the second tree was introduced

Here's a couple of pictures that I've lifted from another thread:



I would like to add that the pole on the station platform has nothing to do with collecting mail bags, it's there to collect a ring or hoop which is generally known as a TOKEN.

To be more accurate the actual token was a separate object, bearing the name of the rail line section to which it belonged, secured inside a pouch or clamp attached to the base of the ring, which was there simply to facilitate the transfer of the token from train to signal station and visa versa.