The bustling scene on Michael Nowicki’s model railroad resembles any number of O gauge layouts from the 1950s, when families had a ball gathering their trains and operating cars to display around their Christmas tree. Lionel stalwarts, including the No. 671 Turbine engine and whistle tender leading the way on Mike’s layout in Newark, N.J., ran for endless hours in Decembers of long ago. Kids loved moving cows on the No. 3656 operating cattle car and corral that remains a hit with members of the Nowicki clan more than 70 years after making its debut in 1949.
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