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Thanks for your comment about the need to put in photographs of the overall layout. As one who often goes out on the road and handles the photography of layouts featured in CTT, I am in a position to offer answers. Whenever anyone on the CTT staff prepares a feature on a layout, we want to include at least one picture that shows as much of the layout as is possible. We know how important and how popular these pictures are. However, it is not always possible to take such shots. One reason is that
Dennis, Congratulations on what looks to be an exciting and informative book for all toy train enthusiasts. From having worked with Dennis for more than 20 years at "Classic Toy Trains," I can attest to how skilled a modeler he is and how much he and the staff of Kalmbach's Books Department have done to prepare this outstanding book. Every reader, regardless of the extent of his or her experience in the hobby or the size of the layout, will find so much to learn about designing a track
Hi Earl, Thanks for your email and the nice words about "All-Star Electric Trains." Right now, we don't have any plans to do a third issue of that special publication, dedicated to the great O and S gauge trains and accessories from the postwar decades. For those of you who haven't seen these two special magazines, the first issue is available as a PDF and print copies of the second one are still available. You can order either the PDF or the print copy by contacting our Customer
Hi everyone, I've just posted a brand-new "Focus on Classics" Web Exclusive for subscribers to "Classic Toy Trains." I spent many years doing research, gathering photos, and interviewing people--all to put together a comprehensive look at one of the greatest toy train stores/hobby shops of the postwar era--the Eric Fuchs store in Boston. This store dealt with customers from throughout New England and really around the world--it advertised heavily in "Model Builder"
Regular readers of ClassicToyTrains.com should be aware that we have posted some new "My Greatest Find" stories as well as a brand-new exclusive story on how Lionel Standard gauge trains were used in one of the most important trials of the 20th century. This story, like the ones I wrote about Lionel's postwar Western Pacific F3s and the Thunderbird Train Master freight set from 1954, are available only on our Web site--nowhere else! You may recall how, in the February 2009 issue, I
The best source for information on Lionel's postwar tenders is Volume 7 of Greenberg's Guide to Lionel Trains, 1945-1969. There, you will find that the no. 2466WX (cataloged from 1946-48) is the early postwar whistle coal tender with staple-end trucks and coil couplers. When Lionel switched to magnetic couplers in 1948, it changed the number so that this whistle tender became the no. 6466WX (cataloged in 1948 and '49). Roger Carp Senior Editor Classic Toy Trains
So many readers of our Web site have been enjoying "My Greatest Find." Today, you'll find another one of these terrific and thoughtful stories, this one written by Reverend Kurt Jensen about a Lionel set from 1953 that brought so much pleasure to his family life as a youngster. Let me again encourage all of you to write in with your own "My Greatest Find." It doesn't need to be a Blue Comet found in a thrift shop. All of us have chanced upon a train or accessory that had
Hi everyone, Many of you have been following the development of Lionel's Postwar Conventional Classics--the series of postwar train sets and individual locomotives reissued by Lionel over the past year or so. In the July 2009 issue of CTT, Bob Keller reviews the reissue of the no. 2219W Thunderbird freight set originally cataloged in 1954. In an exclusive article, available only to magazine subscribers on our Web site, I turn my attention to the original set and evaluate its play value half a
Every week, subscribers to "Classic Toy Trains" will find more exclusive material on our Web site. Just click on the box "Classics" Last week, we posted an exclusive in-depth look at Lionel's postwar Western Pacific F3 diesels and boxcars. This story was brand new--never published in the magazine. Lots of good comments from readers and from people attending the Train Collectors Association show in York. This week, we have posted another in our popular series of "My Greatest
Among my favorite postwar Lionel trains are the magnificent F3s that Lionel decorated for the Western Pacific: nos. 2345 and 2355. I've written a long examination of these beauties as an exclusive entry on our Web site--these were the only F3s that Lionel did not use as the motive power of any sets. Interestingly, the 2355 got a lot of attention on eBay over the weekend. Auctioneers Buz and Norma Ray, whose great collection was featured in CTT back in the January 2000 issue, offered three great
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