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Contents: 3 Ways To Make Rivers And Lakes (How to use paint, Plexiglas and even-pour plastic to make realistic waterways on your layout); Small Layout Filled With Action (Jeff West runs three trains, a subway and a trolley all at once on his 5 x 9-foot O gauge layout); Postwar Locomotive Keeps Coming Back (The Lionel no. 520 box cab has returned in different forms since its 1956 introduction); Great Details On A Mid-Sized Layout (Daniel Jioia gets everything right on his 8 x 16-foot O gauge layout); 6 Lionel Errors On The Internet (Buyers should beware of these postwar misrepresentations); Make Smoother Running Rail Tracks (How to add a capacitor to a track vehicle to improve its performance over switches and crossings); Jumbo Trains On A Big Layout (Tom Zemanek built his huge O gauge layout to accommodate 100-car trains); Step-By-Step Plan (How a rough pencil sketch evolves into a detailed 15 x 17-foot O gauge track plan); American Flyer’s Mr. Peanut Car (The no. 24068 S gauge car boxcar may be the rarest S gauge model of all); Top Trend: Big Steam (Steam locomotive insights from our 20th anniversary reader survey) Departments – Editor’s Desk; Correspondence; Photo Album; News (Take a Model Train to Work Day, S-Helper Service stockcars, Ace Trains O gauge 4-4-0, Atlas O F-unit diesel); Questions & Answers; Tips, Tools & Techniques; Supply List; Wiring Diagrams; Reviews (Williams Girl’s Train steam and CGI electric sets, Lionel NASCAR set, American Models S gauge SD60); Events; Ad Index; Collectible Classics
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Condition: Very Good