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Classic Toy Trains 1998 December 10 tips Favorite engines 1944 Lionel track plan
Classic Toy Trains December 1998
60 A holiday layout team effort BY TERRY THOMPSON Cinergy, CSX, and a host of loyal
enthusiasts have kept this Cincinnati holiday display layout operating for more than 50 years.
70 Tuning up Lionel's operating freight station BY RAY L. PLUMMER
It's easy to keep those baggagemen moving around and around the station platform.
72 A Tru Vue of Flyer's prewar train factory
BY JOHN GRAMS
A pair of Depression-era filmstrips captured Santa and his helpers making toy trains inside American Flyer's Chicago factory, circa 1933.
76 10 tips to kid-proof your layout
Following some simple rules can preserve your locomotives, your rolling stock, and your sanity.
78 Everybody's favorite toy train: the Santa Fe streamliners By TERRY THOMPSON
Even after 50 years, the red, yellow, and silver Santa Fe streamliner still embodies toy trains.
91 Full circle after 50 years
BY BRUCE IRWIN
A once-battered prewar no. 262 locomotive and its passenger consist return home.
92 0-72 Lionel track plan BY TERRY THOMPSON Broad 0-72 curves, staging, a turntable, and more are featured in this track plan originally published in Model Builder magazine in 1944.
94 A German Christmas in America BY TERRY THOMPSON The Huntington National Bank's annual G scale holiday display brings Germany to the Midwest.
98 On the Trail ofthe Blue Comet
Toy train collecting turns up boxed and sealed Blue Comet passenger cars and, more importantly, unites family and friends.
106 Tricky toy train terms
BY TERRY THOMPSON AND THE CTT STAFF
Every hobby has its jargon; here's how to decode ours.
113 Toy Train Advertising Gallery FROM THE FRANK MACHOVEC COLLECTION Our final installment of the Advertising
Gallery series focuses on Lionel's knock-out marketing punch -
the Santa Fe F3.
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