A retro-style O gauge track plan
Nothing says “O gauge toy trains” like a postwar-style display layout. Even if these tabletop railroads don’t always make the…
Read moreNothing says “O gauge toy trains” like a postwar-style display layout. Even if these tabletop railroads don’t always make the…
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Lionel No. 6464 boxcars made their debut 70 years ago. Over the past few decades those near-scale replicas of modern…
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Minitoys No. M-54 road signs Manufacturers and store owners in the toy train business reached the same conclusion, especially in…
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Toy train firms selling miniature versions of steam locomotives knew the full-size versions of those models needed to fill their…
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Imagine you’re in midst of designing a three-rail layout with a decidedly toy look. Maybe you want to give a…
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Take a look at the Lionel No. 3459 automatic dumping ore car, cataloged from 1946 through 1948. The most common…
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Christmas tree train set The history of the “putzen” In as early as the 18th century, Protestants immigrating to America…
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Lionel’s perfect postwar train set The perfect postwar Lionel train set should have a great locomotive, exciting and attractive pieces…
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Lionel wasn’t alone in making landmark accessories after World War II. Colber and Marx brought out great ones. Above all,…
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Amazing how an idea can take off and conquer a segment of the toy industry in the blink of an…
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The trend of motorized accessories replicating activities associated with railroading began at the Lionel factory in New Jersey. Let’s spotlight…
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The world of animated O and S gauge toy trains accessories was, for all intents and purposes, a fairly serious…
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