March 2004

March 2004

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

PREWAR HERITAGE LAYOUT

By Dennis Brennan

Loren Kemp’s fascination with Standard gauge trains was predestined.

PLASTICVILLE – ONE BETTER

By Victor Roseman

How to turn a common coal tower into a showpiece for an O or S gauge layout.

WIDE-CURVE TRACK PLAN

By John Long

This O-72 plan is a postwar purist’s delight.

GRAND CANYON LAYOUT

By Roger Carp

Elliott Klein’s wild-west O gauge layout is a hi-rail tour of Arizona.

6-STEP WHISTLE REPAIR

By Ray L. Plummer

How to fix a broken whistle in a postwar Lionel steam locomotive.

4-BY-8 SCENERY

By Bob Keller

The final installment of our layout-construction series shows you how to make better scenery.

INSIDE-OUT MARX CABOOSE

By Peter Corrigan

This Marx no. 556 caboose has hidden lithography.

AC AND DC WIRING

By Billy Holly

How to run DC trains on your AC layout with a flip of a toggle switch.

Departments

Editor’s Desk

Correspondence

Photo Album

News & Notes

Product News

3rd Rail 4-6-4-4 steamers, Walthers Route 66 motel, Scenic Express painted figures, MTH SW8 diesel, K-Line Roundhouse South boxcar

Questions & Answers

Product Reviews

Atlas O GP35 diesel, MTH Empire State Express steamer, K-Line Plymouth switcher, Atlas O signal set, Ace passenger coaches, Williams “sharknose” diesel

Atlas O GP35 diesel

MTH Premier line Empire State Express 4-6-4 Hudson

K-Line Plymouth industrial switcher

Model Rectifier Corp. 270-watt AC transformer

Ace Trains British Railways Mk. I coach set

Atlas O 21st Century signal system

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