Classic Toy Trains July 2015

Big-time fun on an O gauge Connecticut club layout!
By Roger Carp
The Booth Memorial Railway Society models postwar New England.

Visit a layout built inside a railroad baggage car
By Roger Carp
John Schreiner built a 7 x 55-foot O gauge museum display inside a Virginia museum’s retired railroad car.

More than a hobby shop
By Roger Carp
Charles Mozingo’s Train Room combines an O gauge layout, a Lionel museum, and a retail store.

Collecting Lionel’s early postwar Prairie steam locomotives
By Joe Algozzini , Dave Christianson
Following the trail of 2-6-2 Prairie steamers from 1945 though 1947.

Whistles added realism to American Flyer layouts
By Roger Carp
Kids loved the sound units hidden inside colorful billboards.

Weekend workshop: Make your own O gauge trackside diner for about $9
By Richard A. Chase
Re-purpose a junk-bin passenger car and a few items from past projects into a great-looking layout structure. enance was not uncommon on seven Frisco misfit articulateds