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Classic Toy Trains 2002 May Command Control basics Crossing signals Multi train
Classic Toy Trains May 2002
COVER STORY
52 Basics of Command Control
BY NEIL BESOUGLOFF
Information you need to add digital command control to your layout.
58 Lionel's operating boxcars
BY JOE ALGOZZINI AND ROGER CARP
Trace the development and variations of Lionel's postwar operating boxcars.
66 Nostalgia backwards layout
BY JIM RICCIOLI
Visit a professionally built 0 gauge layout that recalls events and places in its owner's life.
74 Raymond Loewy's Lionel coaling station
BY ROGER CARP
We confirm the rumor that the famous industrial designer's firm was behind Lionel's no. 497 coaler.
78 Realistic operating crossings
BY DON WOODWELL
Update your layout's highway crossing signals with these suggestions.
82 Layout look-back
BY JIM RICCIOLI
Memorable layouts from CTT's past include "Mayor of Plasticville" Bill Nole's 0 gauge layout, Sergio DePinto's 0 gauge layout, and Brooks Stover's hi-rail S gauge layout.
84 Action track plan
BY NORV SCHOCK
Run up to six trains at once using this 0 gauge 7 by 15-foot track plan.
86 Gimme those old-time trains
BY STUART SHUSTER
100 years ago this is what your toy train layout would have looked like.
93 How to wire trackside accessories
BY LOUIS KOUMOUNDOUROS
The first of a multi-part series shows you ways to wire Lionel's classic semaphore.
95 Flyer's rocket sled car
BY JOE DEGER
Space-age events inspired American Flyer's clever motorized unit.
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