Make quick-and-easy junked cars for toy train layouts

Junkyard with painted aluminum foil auto shells.

Toy train layout operators foiled by the lack of inexpensive details can you aluminum foil as the raw materials for unlimited “junked cars.” Best of all, the project won’t strain your how-to skills and will add detail to your layout. You’ll need heavy-duty foil, gloss black paint, your choice of flat colors, a hobby knife, […]

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January 2021

Classic Toy Trains January 2021 issue cover

FEATURES Christmas memories By Gordon I. Peterson O gauge diorama re-creates a winter scene of long ago Introducing a postwar Lionel pioneer By Joe Algozzini , Roger Carp Sid Brown led the way for a generation of collectors. Royal Blues in the night By C. Thomas Somma Landmark American Flyer trains led by bullet-nosed beauties. […]

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December 2020

Classic Toy Trains December 2020 issue

  FEATURES Snow cascading on scarlet and gray By Roger Carp The Houghs’ O gauge cheer for Ohio State Lionel’s no. 9883 Oreo billboard refrigerator car By Roger Carp General Mills-made car touts a competitor’s cookie. Allied Model Trains and Lionel create a Christmas Classic By Allen Drucker Department 56 buildings inspire a great O […]

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