Plasticville
History
History
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The first Plasticville product was a plastic fence, first marketed as a [Christmas tree](/wiki/Christmas_tree "Christmas tree") accessory. When Bachmann found out consumers were using its product on train layouts, it also added some other accessories such as trees, bushes, and bridges. By 1950, Bachmann had added houses and stores to the product line, and Plasticville quickly became the most popular brand of train buildings on the U.S. market. Bachmann added several buildings to the product line every year until 1958\. Some of these buildings were of Bachmann design, but others came from competing product lines that Bachmann absorbed in the mid\-1950s.

In the late 1950s, mass\-market interest in trains declined, with other pastimes, such as [slot cars](/wiki/Slot_car "Slot car"), gaining at their expense. Bachmann responded in 1963 by introducing a line of accessories for slot car tracks.

Although not all pieces were manufactured every year, the Plasticville line has remained commercially available since the 1950s.

In 1984, Plasticville as well as the entire line OF [Bachmann Industries](/wiki/Bachmann_Industries "Bachmann Industries") was taken over by [Kader](/wiki/Kader_Group "Kader Group") Industries of [Dongguan](/wiki/Dongguan "Dongguan"), [China](/wiki/China "China") and made entirely there in [China](/wiki/China "China").


By what year had Bachmann added houses and stores to the product line?