American Flyer No. 971 lumber unloading car
American Flyer No. 971 lumber unloading car So much of the joy that we hobbyists associate with toy trains comes…
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Common name: Grape hyacinth Latin name: Muscari sp. Plant type: Perennial Plant size: 5-8″ high and spreading USDA Hardiness Zones:…
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Lionel’s The Thunderbird toy train set features a Lackawanna locomotive and a Pennsylvania caboose. It’s obviously a toy train —…
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American Flyer No. 636 depressed-center flatcar with reel Even before World War II, the A.C. Gilbert Co. had experimented with…
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Thousands of different O and S gauge sets – cataloged and promotional – were developed between 1945 and 1969. Think…
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The near-scale single-dome tank cars were cataloged in 1946 and ’47. The No. 2855 Sunoco tankers offered no animation or…
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What toy train locomotive means the most to you? It’s a locomotive that’s not a childhood treasure, let alone having…
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After finishing “Rosy,” my sugar cane train saddle tank engine, I decided to kitbash large-scale sugar cane cars. I started…
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My longtime friend Bill Phalen is working on an HO scale layout depicting the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minn., and…
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If you’re like many model railroaders, your first train was set up on the kitchen table, on a 4 x…
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Nothing 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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Modelers David Popp, Brian Schmidt, and Bryson Sleppy add Kato Unitrack to their modular T-TRAK N scale layout. T-TRAK is…
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