Classic Toy Trains

CLASSIC TOY TRAINS BRINGS YOU O AND S GAUGE FOR THE OPERATOR AND COLLECTOR. SEE THE NEWEST TRAINS FROM LIONEL, MTH, ATLAS O AND OTHERS; LEARN ABOUT TRACK PLANNING, WIRING AND LAYOUT CONSTRUCTION; IDENTIFY AND REPAIR OLD LIONEL AND AMERICAN FLYER TRAINS; AND VISIT THE MOST INSPIRING TOY TRAIN LAYOUTS EVER BUILT.

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Classic Toy Trains

Marx inspires colorful creativity

My favorite locomotive • What I played with and what I dreamed of

Lionel No. 2378 Milwaukee Road F3 • This elegant yet dull cab unit lasted only one year

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Shake up your operations • The key word is fun

Restoring a Lionel caboose • Finding the right parts and their numbers

Adding an EOTD to a model • Easily upgrade your S gauge rolling stock

STEVE METKEN’S SHARP O GAUGE LAYOUT • “Neat” and beautifully detailed scenes are everywhere

TRUE STORYOF Madison Hardware’s unique Pennsy EP-5 • Only the famous Lionel retailer sold a body shell painted gold

AMERICAN FLYER Conquers the Rockies • Greg Hurd set his S gauge layout high in Colorado

TRAVEL BACK TO Leonards Department Store • Restored D-147 display layout still delights visitors

Snow, gifts, & O gauge trains in 48 square feet • Getting everything right on a small Christmas layout

Memories of the greatest train ever!

A HOPPER AT LAST • Lionel finally expanded its freight car roster in 1948

Upgrade your tower lights • Spray paint and weathering powders easily add realism

REVIVAL OF American Flyer diesels & electrics by Lionel • Pumping new blood into S gauge modeling in the 1980s and ’90s

Add some flair to your O gauge roster • A look at Lionel’s E8/E9 A-A unit set

A familiar face • Lionel’s semi-scale Amtrak P42 locomotive and Amfleet passenger cars

Lionel Santa Fe Alco Diesel • This 1970s-era engine was only offered as part of a set