CTT September October 2022 issue preview

The September-October issue of Classic Toy Trains features an O gauge layout you can visit: Trains Over Texas! This professionally built display teaches the public about the topography and geology of the Lone Star state and has modern-era Lionel and MTH O gauge trains running through detailed scenes. Also in this issue is a Marx O gauge layout filled with Plasticville and other buildings and accessories. YouTuber Chris “Chris’s Trains and Things” Montagna shows how he replaced a yard on his layout with a new town. American Flyer expert Don Heimburger looks in depth at the S gauge flatcars with trailer loads cataloged by the A.C. Gilbert Co. in the late 1950s, and Lionel prewar expert Bruce Greenberg offers information about the famous Hiawatha freight and passenger outfits cataloged in the 1930s.