Name: Rebecca Chestney Forum User Name: pennytrains Railroad Name: Plasticville Location: 4 by 6 in my bedroom : ) Scale: O and S Theme: 1950’s America Description: More stop-motion and chaos on my postwar layout. […]
Plasticville and Postwar 2017
Tag: Lionel
New toy train products from the December 2017 issue of Classic Toy Trains
URCHIN EXPRESS: Have a school on your O gauge layout? Then you need a school bus barn! The latest industrial structure from Menards is the no. 279-4033 school bus garage. It includes a three-bay work center complete with two buses, maintenance equipment, workers, tools, and background detailing. Outside the shop you’ll find a third bus […]
Running trains on a postwar style Lionel layout
Name: Terry Johnson Forum User Name: tibet99 Railroad Name: Lionel Postwar Layout Location: Michigan Scale: 1/48 Theme: Classic Lionel postwar trains Description: I have a decent high rail layout but got the urge recently to run my Lionel postwar trains. I dug out my Kalmbach book “Classic Lionel Display Layouts You Can Build” by Roger […]
Running trains on a postwar style Lionel layout
Name: Terry Johnson Forum User Name: tibet99 Railroad Name: Lionel Postwar Layout Location: Michigan Scale: 1/48 Theme: Classic Lionel postwar trains Description: I have a decent high rail layout but got the urge recently to run my Lionel postwar trains. I dug out my Kalmbach book “Classic Lionel Display Layouts You Can Build” by Roger […]
All-Star Electric Trains
Celebrating 30 Years of Classic Toy Trains and Our Hobby […]
Build this Retro 4 x 8 Railroad
Large layouts are cool, no doubt, but we thought that something smaller that combined postwar trains with modern materials also sounded like fun. We told Classic Toy Trains Editor Carl Swanson what we were thinking, and he challenged us to actually follow through. Uh-oh. This special 13-page magazine supplement contains step-by-step instructions for creating a 4 […]
How to repair and maintain Lionel postwar locomotives
“I once found a 60-year-old train in the loft of a farmer’s barn, where it had spent more cold northern winters and hot summers than anyone could remember. A family of mice had even made a nest in the box and left behind over a pound of petrified ‘evidence.’ “I thought the engine was […]
Make a bracket post signal
Name: JANIS ROGUSKIE Railroad Name: Reading Lines Location: My attic Scale: Lionel O gauge Description: I scratchbuilt a Reading Company style lattice column bracket post signal for my Lionel hi-rail layout. This slide show is a video record of the project […]
Super O Easter display
Name: JANIS ROGUSKIE Railroad Name: Easter display Scale: Lionel Super-O Theme: 1960’s Display Layout Description: Video of my Lionel Super-O 2017 Easter Display. […]
Make a bracket post signal
Name: JANIS ROGUSKIE Railroad Name: Reading Lines Location: My attic Scale: Lionel O gauge Description: I scratchbuilt a Reading Company style lattice column bracket post signal for my Lionel hi-rail layout. This slide show is a video record of the project […]
Super O Easter display
Name: JANIS ROGUSKIE Railroad Name: Easter display Scale: Lionel Super-O Theme: 1960’s Display Layout Description: Video of my Lionel Super-O 2017 Easter Display. […]
LionChief+ Universal Remote from Lionel
No. 83071 remote FEATURES: 1 POWER LIGHT 2 ON/OFF SWITCH 3 THROTTLE 4 HORN 5 UNCOUPLER 6 UNCOUPLER 7 BELL PRICE: $49.99 Lionel’s LionChief and later LionChief Plus command-control systems signaled a revolutionary approach to digital operation of trains. LionChief is a basic way to start and stop trains, control speed and direction, and trigger […]
