Below, you can watch a streaming video of MTH’s O gauge Premier line Flying Yankee streamliner in action. It features O-72 operation, two can-style motors, interior illumination, ProtoSound 2.0, and retails for $699.95. […]
In the March 2009 issue of CLASSIC TOY TRAINS, Bob Keller reviewed this O gauge boxcab electric, by K-Line by Lionel. […]
In the March 2009 issue of CLASSIC TOY TRAINS, Bob Keller reviewed this O gauge boxcab electric, by K-Line by Lionel. […]
Q: I’m having problems with my postwar Lionel diesel horns. One is in a no. 2343 Santa Fe F3 and the other is in a no. 2331 Virginian Train Master. Both locomotives are in like-new condition, and though I know I can buy a replacement horn, I’d like to keep them original and get the […]
SIXTY YEARS AGO, if you’d lined up Alco, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, Electro-Motive, Fairbanks-Morse, and General Electric diesels and tried to pick which would rule 21st-Century railroading, few would have guessed it would be GE. After all, General Electric was a late-comer to the locomotive business and was chiefly known for supplying electrical components to other locomotive builders. […]
INEXPENSIVE IS NOT BAD. Cheap is bad, but not inexpensive. Cheap means flimsy material and poor reliability. Inexpensive means “I’ll take two, instead.” Lionel seems to be steering the K-Line product line in a specific direction – and that direction appears to be smart, economical trains, rather than the high-dollar super-spectacular locomotives we came to […]
Watch Bob’s video introduction of Atlas O’s Industrial Rail starter set. Only from Classic Toy Trains. […]
Here is a video of the MTH RailKing diesel freight set. […]
ALTHOUGH THE SHAPE OF THE P5a BOXCAB bears a strong resemblance to a plastic cheese storage box, don’t let that fool you. This model illustrates the high level of detail that can go into a die-cast metal diesel or locomotive shell. […]
Watch Bob’s video introduction of Atlas O’s Industrial Rail starter set. Only from Classic Toy Trains. […]
Here is a video of the MTH RailKing diesel freight set. […]
ALTHOUGH THE SHAPE OF THE P5a BOXCAB bears a strong resemblance to a plastic cheese storage box, don’t let that fool you. This model illustrates the high level of detail that can go into a die-cast metal diesel or locomotive shell. […]
