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Classic Toy Trains Photo of the Day: Stephen Mayer’s O gauge layout

By Rene Schweitzer | September 15, 2025

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A toy locomotive and tender emerge from a roundhouse on a toy train layout

Favorite travel spots often influence the scenes model railroaders create for their layouts. This is very much the case with Stephen Mayer, who has long enjoyed exploring the sights of upstate New York near his home in Romulus as well as areas in central Pennsylvania. No wonder a visit to Scranton in the Keystone State inspired him to construct from scratch a replica of a turntable there. Stephen, who snapped this picture, has posed on his fourth O gauge layout a prized Lionel No. 736 2-8-4 Berkshire steam engine and tender. The postwar stallion has just finished being serviced by the crew at the Golden Valley Locomotive Works.


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