Every postwar enthusiast will admit to having a favorite kind of freight car. Pin down Robert Madison, and this resident of Westerly, R.I., will confess to a love of Lionel’s short and long transformer cars. He will occasionally put together a train consisting of half a dozen of the memorable cars, with a work caboose at the rear. For our benefit, Bob fired up a No. 2056 small Hudson steamer with a No. 2020W whistle tender and then coupled the duo to a nicely restored No. 2461 transformer car. The beautiful backdrop showing Onota Lake, Mass., is an enlarged postcard. A station and trees complete this scene on his Cwm Llwyd layout. Bob took the name of his 50 x 60-inch O gauge layout from the Welsh words for “gray valley.”
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