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by Clay Kinsner
When you get a Lionel Prewar articulated streamliner, sometimes it can be a little confusing how to attach the cars using the vestibules.
Wonder no...
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by Clay Kinsner
BIG CHRISTMAS TRAIN NEWS
From the 1:1 scale world...
CPKCS has terminated the Rudy holiday train.
But wait, there's GOOD news! Instead, they are le...
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by Clay Kinsner
What's in a name?
Recently I was showing some MTH passenger cars to a recovering HO Scale operator who has made the O gauge plunge. When I pul...
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by Clay Kinsner
American Flyer was originally based in Chicago and made three rail Standard Gauge and O gauge and even wind ups...just like Lionel. It was not unti...
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by Clay Kinsner
My Dad spent much of his early adulthood trying to buy all of the trains he never had as a relatively poor youngster growing up in small town Texas...
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by Clay Kinsner
Hurry Hurry Hurry!
Step Right Up!
Check out the American Flyer Circus Set Cardboard Cutout made into a nice diorama!
In 1950, American Flyer put ou...
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by Clay Kinsner
Lone Star Trains is now offering Custom Christmas cars in our favorite gauges--ALL of them!
The first sleigh full is ready--we have cars in Prewar ...
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by Clay Kinsner
Every now and then we have a sale or promotion that I know you want to hear about.
HOW, you ask?
All you have to do is sign up for our newsletter ...
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by Clay Kinsner
MEET SAM THE SEMAPHORE MAN FROM 1952-53
Sam comes out of the crossing shanty when the train comes by, and then retires inside after it passes.
The ...
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by Clay Kinsner
This is a custom produced Lionel woodside reefer from the early MPC era. This car started life as either a blank shell or another of the woodside r...
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by Clay Kinsner
We have recently added some interesting G gauge items to our inventory...more coming daily.
One question we often get is why is G usually called GA...
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by Clay Kinsner
Hey Everyone! Check out this Virtual Polar Express Reading and Train Run by our long-time friend, Allen Bordelon of Holy Cross High School. Share...
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