Locomotives we love: Lionel No. 2025 2-6-2 Prairie type steamer
What toy train locomotive means the most to you? It just has to be Lionel’s famed 2-6-2 Prairie type locomotive…
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Editor’s note: I’ve found a number of unpublished manuscripts in our file cabinets. This one dates from around 1999. Does…
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Display Layouts and Showrooms is the latest 100-page special or extra issue of Classic Toy Trains. The editors and artists…
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Lionel No. 2245 Texas Special F3 Diesel A and B Units celebrate their 70th anniversary this year. The beautiful O…
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Kids of the 1950s loved Lionel’s little switch engines. The stubby proportions and whirling drive rods of these classics give…
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Joe Algozzini, perhaps the preeminent expert on Lionel trains and accessories manufactured during the post-World War II era (1945-69) has…
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The concept of an American Freedom Train arose after WWII. It was a chance for Americans to reflect on their…
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Rarely does a locomotive capture both the elements of power and beauty. As train enthusiasts we love the power aspect,…
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My early “trainhood” was 1955 to 1968. I had an uncle who gave me a train the year I was…
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Lionel brought out its first No. 6464 near-scale boxcars in 1953. The models it developed were strongly influenced by what…
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This article was originally published in the December 1990 issue of Classic Toy Trains. John Grams was a longtime contributor…
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Lionel’s postwar 44-ton diesels may be the most overlooked O gauge locomotives of the era. Collectors focus, instead, on the…
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