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Video: Lionel O gauge Canadian Pacific freight set

The Canadian Maple Leaf freight set combines an uncommon road name (for a complete set, that is) with an eclectic selection of rolling stock. […]

Video: Woodland Scenics O Scale Built-&-Ready Structure Line

These ready-to-install structures by Woodland Scenics is a smart new product for the O scale market that will spruce up the appearance of any layout with ease. […]

Classic Toy Trains, December 2011

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Vintage video footage of a Lionel showroom layout

Vintage Lionel showroom layout video still

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 […]