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Working on the railroad: Vintage video footage

Vintage footage of Lionel postwar factory

What was it like working at Lionel’s Hillside, NJ factory during the postwar electric train boom? […]

Dennis P’s Saguaro & Southwestern Railroad

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Kent Johnson’s modern O gauge layout

Senior Editor Kent Johnson used the walls of his basement to create impressive Canadian mountain scenery in a tight space. Learn how to recreate his rocky canyon walls in the March 2013 issue, and see trains traversing the rugged landscape he created in this video. […]

Classic Toy Trains, January 2013

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Curves & climbs track plan

Layout designer: Michael Tylick Scale: O Layout size: 11 x 16 feet Track type: Lionel FasTrack Minimum curve: O-36 Originally appeared in the March 2013 issue of Classic Toy Trains. Curves & Climbs track plan Curves & Climbs track plan schematic […]

New products for March 2013

HERITAGE GOES RAILKING: The wildly popular Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage series of retro paint schemes joining the RailKing line. The Electro-Motive Diesel SD70ACe is an Imperial line locomotive featuring road names NS applied to this prototype body. The fallen flags include Erie, Illinois Terminal, Jersey Central, Lackawanna (shown above), Penn Central, Reading, Savannah & Atlanta, […]

O Gauge Baldwin Centipede Diesel by Lionel

I don’t recall if I’ve ever proclaimed my all-time favorite diesel (real or model). If I haven’t, well, the winner is the Baldwin Centipede. It was long, imposing, and about as far away from the more delicate appearance of an Electro-Motive Division FT or F3 as you could get. The Centipede had a massive line […]