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Classic Toy Trains 1998 September 50 years of toy towns Plasticville USA
Classic Toy Trains September 1998
COVER STORY
58 Just one word ...Plasticville BY ROGER CARP Towns grow from humble beginnings, and the postwar Plasticville line of city and railroad structures was no exception.
64Leading a structured lifeBY ROGER CARP
Dave Yost built his layout to showcase his collection of Plasticville buildings.
70 The photographic artistry of Jeb Kriigel You know Jeb's toy trains from CTT's
photo contests - now enjoy a gallery of his work.
74 0 gauge ona grand scale
The founders of the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers set out to build the ultimate Lionel layout - you could easily argue that they have succeeded.
82 Just like clockwork BY HUBERT SCHNCK The joy of wind-up trains hasn't been
forgotten on the author's whimsical clockwork layout.
86 Lionel's 1960 Father and Son set
Lionel's marketing experiment - offering identical 0 and HO trains as a single set - wasn't a big seller in 1960, but it is a tremendous prize for collectors today.
92New life for a tired F3,
A cleaning, tune up, and new wiring and shells can turn a battered toy train into a star again.
96 Milwaukee Road CLASSIC bilevel trackplan
BY MARTIN J. MCGUIRK
Common to smaller scales, a double-deck helix layout gives you twice as much running room as a conventional layout.
101 Toy Train Advertising Gallery FROM THE FRANK MACHOVEC COLLECTION
The end of the war left Lionel and Gilbert scrambling for trains to sell for Christmas 1945, but it didn't keep them from "priming the pump" for 1946.
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