[Important] The Very TRUE Origin of Plarail 70 Years Ago, Not 61 Years Ago

Turns out Borel is Ben Orel, the man behind Jack Built toys who acquired the patent for Snap Train in 1958. B Orel is stamped under pieces which seems to be where Borel comes from.


It looks similar to the stamps under the highway set vehicles. More info on Jack Built here: https://magicref.net/trains/trainhistory.htm

I still don't see a direct Highway set from them, but we already know they use different track. Seems the vehicles and track came from different places, vehicles from Jack Built/Ben Orel and track from Playskool/Keystone

I did spot this set with a few vehicles from the Highway set



They also have a bumper piece with the two raised cylinders.

The Playskool/Skaneateles vehicles seem to never have headlights, which the Jack Built and Plarail Highway set ones do have.