January 2001

January 2001

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

In the pages of CLASSIC TOY TRAINS magazine you’ll find information about building, operating, and enhancing toy train layouts; track plans, repair and maintenance tips, profiles of collectible postwar and prewar trains, and more.

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Features

WHO WAS THE FIRST: LIONEL OR FLYER?

By John A. Grams

Find out whose innovations reached that hands of consumers first.

MILWAUKEE MEMORIES LAYOUT

By Carl Swanson

Mike Gunther salutes the Milwaukee Road with his two-level O gauge layout.

PRISTINE LIONEL STORE DISPLAY

By Roger Carp

A $35,000 prewar Lionel cardboard display dismisses notions that all of Lionel’s treasures have been discovered.

CHILDREN’S CHANUKAH TRAIN

By Bruce J. Brown

Youngsters build their own holiday train from an MTH set.

ADDING AN MTH BACKUP LIGHT

By Don Grabski

The RailKing Camelback is perfect for just such a conversion.

HI-RAIL SCENES MADE SIMPLE

By Stan Trzoniec

A trio of evening detailing projects can bring your layout to life.

MR. DANSKY GOES TO WASHINGTON

By Roger Carp

Collector David Dansky commissions a grand layout featuring O, Standard, OO, and even 2 7/8 gauge trains.

MODEL BUILDER MAGAZINE CHRISTMAS

By John A. Grams

50-year-old tips about toy trains and Christmas are whimsical – and still applicable today.

REPAIR LIONEL’S ORE DUMP CARS

By Ray L. Plummer

It’s easy to tune up these rugged pieces of rolling stock.

BERBER CARPET ROADBED

By Ken Deming

Here’s a simple, attractive, and quiet way to lower that roar of your layout.

TRANSCONTINENTAL HI-RAIL LAYOUT

By Harold W. Russell

Gary Patterson’s hi-rail O gauge line runs from East to West.

MULTI-TRAIN 4 BY 8 LAYOUT

By Anthony DiLapi

A postwar-style track plan features three trains on one sheet of plywood.

JOIN THE TRAIN CLUB

By Dennis Moore

Interested in joining a train club? Here’s the scoop on eight of them.

KARL BUB CALIFORNIA CAR

By Robert S. Butler

A bit of mystery surrounds the prewar “California Frucht Transport” car.

Departments

Editor’s Desk

Correspondence

News & Notes

Point of View

Product News

New catalogs from K-Line, Lionel, and MTH; American Models S gauge caboose; new Greenberg postwar guide

Questions & Answers

Product Reviews

Williams postwar NW2 diesel switcher

Lionel Burlington Route starter set

K-Line Santa Fe Pacific 4-6-2

MTH RailKing C&O L1 Hudson 4-6-4

IC Controls action recorder controller

MTH RailKing helicopter launching car

Ace Trains British C1E/LMS multiple-unit train

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