Lionel 2353 Santa Fe diesels and two streamlined passenger cars purchased through a Dutch website caused Daniel Biessels gave up HO scale modeling for O gauge and focus on postwar and modern-era models. Then he built a layout set in the Rocky Mountains that he calls the Glenwood Springs & Colorado RR. The arid scenery […]
Timken launched an advertising campaign showing rolling stock of the day decorated in Timken colors. Rectifier! This is a Conventional Classics-series reproduction of the Lionel no. 2505W Super O Virginian Rectifier freight outfit from 1958. Without the Super O track, of course. Frankly, this isn’t a set that would have wowed me as a kid. […]
Let’s say you’ve got a ton of old Lionel track in your basement, or maybe someone is willing to give you a bunch for nothing. You want to build a layout, so you figure you can use this track to do it economically. However, when you get a closer look at the O or O-27 […]
Layout designer: Robert Sherman Scale: O Layout size: 12 x 12 feet Track type: Lionel O Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the November 2007 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the links below to view PDF’s for Chesterfield Trunk & Terminal. Track Plan Schematics Parts List […]
Layout designer: Thomas Meleck Scale: O Layout size: 12 x 16 feet Track type: Atlas O Minimum curve: O-54 Originally appeared in the September 2002 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Big and small time operation track plan Big and small time operation schematics […]
Layout designer: Neil Besougloff Scale: O Layout size: 12 x 12 feet Track type: Lionel Tubular Minimum curve: O-42 Originally appeared in the July 2005 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Track Plans Schematics Parts List […]
Layout designer: Arthur O’Connor Scale: O Layout size: 6 x 12 feet Track type: Lionel O gauge tubular Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the March 2005 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Bridging the gap track plan Bridging the gap parts list […]
Layout designer: John Long Scale: O Layout size: 12 x 16 feet Track type: Lionel O Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the November 2000 issue of Classic Toy Trains. First place winner of Classic Toy Trains magazine’s first layout planning contest: Plans for a 12 x 16-foot room. Click on the link to download […]
Layout designer: Robert J. Hueffed Scale: O Layout size: 11 x 15 feet Track type: Lionel O-27 Minimum curve: O-42 Originally appeared in the November 2003 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Track plan Parts list […]
Layout designer: Neil Besougloff Scale: O Layout size: 6 x 17 feet Track type: Lionel O Minimum curve: O-54 Originally appeared in the January 2004 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Track plan Parts list […]
Layout designer: Toy Train Operating Society Story author: Roger Carp Scale: O Layout size: 8 x 8 feet Track type: Lionel O Minimum curve: O-31 Originally appeared in the October 2002 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Lionel display comes to life track plan Lionel display comes to life materials list […]
Layout designer: E. A. Engebretson and Kent Johnson Scale: O Layout size: 14 x 17 feet Track type: Lionel FasTrack Minimum curve: O-36 Originally appeared in the November 2005 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Click on the link to download a PDF of this track plan. Track plan Schematic Parts list […]
