Roadbed made from plastic carpet chair mats
“Don’t sweat the small stuff!” That’s easy to say when you are running small equipment on your rails. Your diminutive…
Read more“Don’t sweat the small stuff!” That’s easy to say when you are running small equipment on your rails. Your diminutive…
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Everyone has to move at some point in their life, but for model railroaders, there’s an added task: reassembling a…
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Editor’s note: This article was submitted to Garden Railways in 2015. In contacting the author recently to inquire about publication,…
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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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A finished S scale layout or individual model can be both visually and operationally impressive. However, getting the desired model…
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If you’re like me and enjoy riding Amtrak, but also enjoy model railroading, you’ve likely asked yourself “can I take…
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Wanting to expand the structures in my railway’s yard, I decided to build a sanding house and tower. I was…
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Editor’s note: I’ve found a number of unpublished manuscripts in our file cabinets.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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A common question newcomers to model railroading ask is “Why do railroads use signals?” The quick answer is to keep…
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The idea for building this small disappearing O-27 layout came to me after reading an issue of Lionel’s Inside Track…
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