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December 2017 | ModelRailroader.com
By Robert Seckler | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
December 2017
By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
In the pages of CLASSIC TOY TRAINS magazine you’ll find information about building, operating, and enhancing toy train layouts; track plans, repair and maintenance tips, profiles of collectible postwar and prewar trains, and more.
Features
Cool Christmas layout
Winter never ends on Donald and Miriam Pruter’s richly detailed 12 x 20-foot O gauge railroad.
Fifteen
For the 15th anniversary of Classic Toy Trains, experts predicted the next 15 years of hobby developments. Time’s up! How did they do?
Automobile-hauling boxcars roll on Lionel Lines
A guide to collecting and operating the different versions of O gauge automotive boxcars from Lionel.
The timeless appeal of Standard gauge trains
Step inside Glenn Skidmore’s prewar train room and relive tinplate glory.
Spirit of the season
Sal Soldano shares his richly detailed O gauge layout with disabled and special-needs adults and children.
Flyer’s one-of-a-kind hobo car never entered production
An ingenious S gauge mechanism was developed, but the operating hobo car was never produced.
30 years of great photos
Take a trip down memory lane through the lenses of some of the top photographers in the hobby.
Mounting bracket missing from your loco? No problem!
A common household item is a simple substitute for a missing Lionel EP-5 mounting bracket.
Departments
Editor’s Desk
Letters
Photo Album
News
A limited-run Classic Toy Trains boxcar from Lionel, a towering hotel from Menards, and All-Star Electric Trains, a new publication from the staff of CTT.
Questions & Answers
Collectible Classics
Lionel’s no. 9821 Southern Pacific gondola
Views from the Underground
Weekend Workshop
Reviews
MTH’s O gauge Amtrak F40PH and Norfolk Southern salute to first responders GP38-2
Tips, Tools, & Techniques
December 2017
By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020
| Last updated on November 3, 2020
Garden Railways has been the leading magazine devoted to the hobby of outdoor, large-scale model railroading for more than 30 years. Each issue brings you step-by-step modeling projects, fascinating photo tours of garden railroads, unbiased product reviews, new product announcements, tips from the experts, and much more!
Plus, subscribers get exclusive online access to the Railroad Gardening Library, product reviews, project plans, bonus articles, and more. Whether you’re new to the hobby or a seasoned veteran, this magazine is for you!
Features
Kitbashing NAR boxcars in 129 scale
Aristo-Craft cars provided the starting point for some unusual rolling stock
Grades on garden railways
Part 2: Helper engines, railway design, and more
California narrow gauge in the 1940s
The Lake Tahoe & Truckee Railroad
Building the Matheson Textiles mill
This large structure has a surprise inside
Structure ideas for 112 scale
Creative adaptive reuse and modeling solve some problems
Departments
From the Editor
Movers and shakers
Notes & news
Letters
Garden railway basics
Taking apart a locomotive: Part 2
One-page project
Make inexpensive wooden wheels
