A box of memories......

I finally brought this box home from my parents place.  It hasn't been dealt with yet but I am anxious to dig in to see what I can do to clean these things. I know that there are two older locomotives in here. One hasn't worked for years, it was my older brothers' train. The other locomotive belonged to my brother and me when we received it from Santa together back in 1957.  It  worked back then and I hope I can get it back to working now.  One other train, that I didn't know my folks still had was an old metal train, that had a wind-up locomotive.  It was a cheap think that ran on a small circle track. I see the front face of that is gone and a set of wheels on the caboose is gone, but I thought the whole thing had been thrown away.  I see from the picture that there are old tinker toys in there and a few plastic farm animals.  The cloth was thrown in and I think that is from France, that my Dad had sent to my mom, a handkerchief, during the war.
Maybe tomorrow I can start to dig in and clean some of these things.  Right now it looks like a mess ready for a remedy.