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Magazine: Classic Toy Trains
Vintage video footage of a Lionel showroom layout
Lucky youngsters from the 1920s to the 1960s were privileged to visit Lionel’s showroom in New York City to admire its trains and accessories operating on the great layouts there. Decades later we can only envy them for being there to view the landmark displays. […]
Video: Mainline “mile” in O gauge
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Video: Lionel’s O gauge Wabash passenger set
This Lionel O gauge Wabash Blue Bird passenger set honors one of the premier trains that at one time ran daily between Chicago and St. Louis. […]
Lionel’s O gauge Wabash passenger set
Once again Lionel is thinking outside the box regarding starter set road names. This three-car set gets points for offering something other than, say, the Santa Fe. It serves up the Wabash. The Wabash was a bridge route that ran from Buffalo, N.Y., to Kansas City, with branches to Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, Chicago, […]
O gauge Alco switcher by RMT
One great feature of the O gauge world is the uncanny knack of some enterprising folks to identify a needed toy train and then manufacture it. Whether you’re talking about hobbyists who create a cottage industry of making reproduction prewar and postwar train parts – or someone like Jerry Williams, who saw a market for […]
O scale pine trees
O scale pine trees tip […]
I want an electric train for Christmas
Just for over-aged toy train “nuts” who happen to be doowop music nuts too! (Am I the only one who shares these hobbies?) […]
Video: Tinplate line starter set by Lionel-MTH
This outfit is from the fun era of toy trains when what people bought were representations of the real thin, not scale models. […]
Classic Toy Trains, November 2011
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Tinplate Line starter set by MTH
Set aside all your prototype railroad reference books. This outfit is from the fun era of toy trains, when trains were actual toys and what people bought were representations of the real thing, not scale models. You get the prewar Lionel heritage, except the trains are made better! LocomotionThis may be anathema to most train […]
Lionel O gauge Minneapolis & St. Louis diesel freight set
For some reason, most starter sets seem be named using a very narrow list of railroads: New York Central, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, and Union Pacific. I guess you can toss Amtrak into the mix, too. So for us to receive a Lionel starter set in the color of the Minneapolis & St. Louis is a […]
