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.
The joy in trains • Remembering what drew us to them in the first place
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Changing Flyer piggyback flatcars
Track choices • Options for traditional and modern layouts
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Lionel’s No. 9466 Wanamaker Railway Lines boxcar • Memories of a grand department store
Replacing lights in a Lionel baggage car • How to remove the roof
The Royal Blue • The history behind an American Flyer icon
Seventy is not so good… • Unless it’s your golf score
LAYOUT FOR ANY ERA • Sean Morgan’s Hellertown & Delaware is the sum of his interests
LIFT GATE PUTS YOU IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ACTION
Two projects to make unique cars • Paint and parts make something new out of something old
one train unites two brothers • Bringing back a dream
RETURN TO A GREAT S GAUGE LAYOUT • An updated tour of Dave Tori’s home railroad
The Mystery of Lionel’s ORPHAN STATION • Getting answers about a prewar accessory
50 YEARS OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS – DONE! • Postwar Lionel Super O display restored at last
Lionel Legacy SD45 • This O gauge model is a beast of a locomotive
Lionel American Flyer EP-5 • After sitting in a holding pattern, this S gauge FlyerChief ‘jet’ is ready for takeoff
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Turn containers into trestles • Plus another American Flyer stirrup fix, and tar paper streets
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