March 2000

March 2000

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

LIONEL FOR 1950

By Joe Algozzini , Roger Carp

Lionel came up with an outstanding lineup of trains for its golden anniversary year.

ADVERTISING EXCELLENCE

By Roger Carp

Jacques Zuccaire broke with tradition to promote Lionel’s postwar trains.

LOFT LAYOUT WITH A SENSE OF HISTORY

By George Hall

A recycling center is home to a hi-rail O gauge layout focusing on a chapter in California’s history.

FOOLPROOF 4 BY 8

By Carl Swanson

Simplicity is the virtue of this crossover plan for O-27 track, which can also be built using S and O gauge track.

SET THEM UP, A.C.

By Roger Carp

Dennis Bagby collects the finest American Flyer boxed sets.

BUILD A LASER DISINTEGRATOR CAR

By Bruce J. Bowen

If postwar toy train spotlight cars were a product of 2000 instead of the 1950s, this is what they’d look like.

LIONEL’S TOP 10: THE 700E HUDSON

By John A. Grams

At no. 7 in our reader survey of Lionel’s top developments is the prewar scale Hudson locomotive.

MARX TRANSFORMER MYSTERY

By James R. Flynn

A small scrap of paper explains why the transformer for a war-time Marx set has no cord.

TANK CAR MAKEOVER

Paint and decals can restore a Lionel no. 6555 postwar tank car.

Departments

Editor’s Desk

Correspondence

News & Notes

Point of View

Product News

Weaver RS-11 locomotive, Stoney Express Madison Hardware building, MTH “rubber stamped” tinplate cars, custom-decorated Weaver cars

Questions & Answers

Product Reviews

MTH Premier line 2-8-4 Berkshire

Lionel no. 465-99 sound dispatching station

MTH RailKing Pennsylvania RR starter set

USA Trains Large scale cabooses

MTH RailKing New York subway set

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