January 2017

January 2017

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

Give your railroad an identity

By Stanley Trzoniec

Decals and a little paint help you build the brand of your O or S layout.

Build a traditional-style Christmas display layout

By Frank Mills

Tips from a family with more than a century of holiday layout experience.

Install steady lighting for an American Flyer caboose

By Lee Olson

Improve your classic postwar caboose’s operation.

Painting a special engine

By Michael Fournier

A custom-painted train unlocks magic for a special little girl.

6 simple steps to realistic concrete paving

By Frank Knautz

Making great-looking streets, parking lots, and sidewalks is easy.

Cowboy in a 3-rail paradise

By Roger Carp

Half a century with Lionel trains began in Christmas 1956.

Start packing your bags for Pennsylvania!

By Roger Carp

Charlie Jones creates an O gauge tour of the Keystone State.

A knockout Marx display surfaces after 75 years

By Mike Mauntel

This surviving Marx display helped J.C. Penney’s announce the arrival of the 1940 holiday season.

Lionel’s seldom-seen Macy’s department store train sets

Prewar promotional outfits developed for a department store.

Departments

Editor’s Desk

Letters

Photo Album

News

The line of boxcars from Menards has grown by 14, and new road names for the Williams by Bachmann 44-tonner and the Lionel SD70ACe.

Questions & Answers

Collectible Classics

American Flyer’s no. 4904T train set.

Views from the Underground

Weekend Workshop

Reviews

O gauge Alco RS-3 diesel from MTH Electric Trains and a new station from Menards.

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