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Replacing a broken spring on a Lionel postwar B unit • A GENTLE APPROACH AS WELL AS SPARE PARTS SOLVE A COMMON PROBLEM

Zoom • HOW WE’RE ENJOYING OUR TRAINS NOW

Introducing A POSTWAR LIONEL PIONEER • SID BROWN LED THE WAY FOR A GENERATION OF COLLECTORS

Royal Blues in the night • LANDMARK FLYER TRAINS LED BY BULLET-NOSED BEAUTIES

SANTA CLAUS LOVES HIS TOY TRAINS • AN O GAUGE LAYOUT KEEPS EVERYONE HAPPY AT THE NORTH POLE

Railway to forgiveness • Time to correct an old wrong

Christmas memories ON AN O GAUGE DIORAMA • RECREATE A WINTER SCENE OF LONG AGO

BARCLAY FIGURES LIVE ON AND ON

Lionel sets and more for 1970 • ‘POSTER’ CHILDREN FOR THE MPC ERA

ALL ABOARD the Kall-Mason Line • THIS O GAUGE LAYOUT CELEBRATES OUR FAMILY

FLYER’S NO. 271 WHISTLE STOP SET

Building with junk • TWO WRECKED PIECES CAN BE TURNED INTO A VANDERBILT TENDER

Pretty prairie power • THE CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN LEGACY F7 A-A SET FROM LIONEL

Super scenery space savers • MENARDS FLAT AND STATION ARE REAL ESTATE FRIENDLY

Making large O scale trees • COMBINING MATERIALS FROM SEVERAL MAKERS IS THE KEY