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Magazine: Classic Toy Trains
A Rocky Mountain railroad for your rec room
Layout designer: Michael Tylick Scale: O Layout size: 14 x 19 feet Track type: Atlas O Minimum curve: O-27 Originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of Classic Toy Trains. A Rocky Mountain railroad for your rec room A Rocky Mountain railroad for your rec room components […]
O gauge brass New Haven I-4 4-6-2 by Weaver Models
The New Haven was an essential partner in the commerce of the Northeastern United States. In addition to connecting the New England states through freight and passenger service, the line was a powerful conduit for travel between Boston and New York City. Fast and frequent trains served businessmen as well as people seeking to cool […]
O gauge Menards steam freight set
Though this train set from Menards arrived too late to get it into a pre-Christmas issue, I’m still tickled to review it because I believe it is a first for Classic Toy Trains: This may be the first chain store exclusive set we’ve ever reviewed. While sets of that nature were common in the 1950s […]
Project railroad: Create insulated track segments
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Project railroad: Cut track with a power tool
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Video: O gauge Menards steam freight set by Lionel
This may be the first chain store exclusive set CTT has ever reviewed! The set is powered by Lionel’s 0-8-0 and pulls four cars decorated for the Chicago & North Western, three of them unique to Menards. See the set in action here! […]
Video: O gauge brass New Haven I-4 4-6-2 by Weaver Models
One of the best New Haven designs was the I-4 class of 4-6-2 Pacifics. The railroad and the manufacturer worked together to build an engine that could handle the heaviest passenger traffic on the line – and which could be a fill in for freight power. See this O gauge model in action! […]
Classic Toy Trains, November 2012
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An O gauge layout that grows!
Layout designer: Terry Thompson Scale: O Layout size: 5 x 8 feet, expanding to 8 x 12 feet Track type: MTH RealTrax Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the January 2013 issue of Classic Toy Trains. ctt-An O gauge layout that grows! An O gauge layout that grows! An O gauge layout that grows! components […]
O gauge Blue Streak passenger set by Lionel Corp. Tinplate Line (MTH)
This is a reproduction of a clever bit of marketing from back in the mid-1930s. Take the then-popular Commodore Vanderbilt steam locomotive (the swankiest engine on the New York Central at the time) and pair it with a streamlined vividly colored train set. Profits will surely ensue. To get the job done, Lionel used its […]
O gauge RailKing GG1 by MTH
The traditionally sized GG1 is popular in O gauge, as illustrated by the fact that MTH, Williams by Bachmann, and RMT by AristO have comparable models in their current catalogs. Where vintage models may have the advantage of being collectible, they may also have chipped paint, faded stripes, and five decades of iffy maintenance (or […]
