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Classic Toy Trains 2001 January Lionel or Flyer MTH Backup light
Classic Toy Trains January 2001
COVER STORY
60 Who was first Lionel or Flyer?
BY Find out whose innovations reached the hands of consumers first.
68 Milwaukee memories layout
Mike Gunther salutes the Milwaukee Road with his two-level 0 gauge layout.
75 Pristine Lionel store display BY ROGER CARP
A $35,000 prewar Lionel cardboard display dismisses notions that all of Lionel's treasures have been
discovered.
77 Children's.Chanukah train
BY BRUCE. Youngsters build their own holiday train from an MTH set.
80 Adding an MTH backup light BY DON GRABSKI The RailKing Camelback is perfect for just such a conversion.
82Hi-rail scenes made simple
BY STAN TRZONIEC
A trio of evening detailing projects
can bring your layout to life.
86 Mr. Dansky goes to Washington BY ROGER CARP
Collector David Dansky commissions a grand layout featuring 0, Standard, 00, and even 27X gauge trains.
94 Model Builder magazine Christmas BY o11\ A. GRAMS
50-year-old tips about toy trains and Christmas are whimsical - and still applicable today.
98 Repair Lionel's ore dump cars
BY RAY L. PLUMMER
It's easy to tune up these rugged pieces of rolling stock.
100 Berber carpet roadbed BY KEN DEMING Here's a simple, attractive, and quiet way to lower the roar of your layout.
104 Transcontinental hi-rail layout BY HAROLD W. RUSSELL
Gary Patterson's hi-rail 0 gauge line runs from East to West.
108 Multi-train 4,by 8 layout
BY A postwar-style track
plan features three
trains on one sheet of
plywood.
110 Join the train club BY DENNIS MOORE Interested in joining a train club?
Here's the scoop on eight of them.
117 Karl Bub California car
BY ROBERT S. BUTLER
A bit of mystery surrounds the prewar "California Frucht Transport" car.
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