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One of the best-known names in model railroading, see the prices Lionel trains bring at auction -- from beloved pre-war marvels to the Richard Kughn years.

How a basement hobby turned into world-building.

Cheap and easy streets for your model railroad. This video shows you how to make great look streets / roads for your model railroad with minimum expense and ...

It might not look like much, in fact it may look a little odd, but this will be the first locomotive I've installed ditch lights on. Here the SMD LED's are fished through the shell, and they've been wired to the DecoderBuddy (one of the very early ones). The ditch light mounts are Details West DL-229 parts, currently having the canopy glue holding the lenses in drying.

How about trackwork? The trains we love can’t do much without track. In the next installment of our series, I’ll present some track and track laying options to think about when planning your model railroad layout.

Top 5 HO scale train layouts plans for model train beginners and intermediates including the dimensions and area required for the benchwork and easy access to heard to reach spots on the model railroad.

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One of the greatest ways to add flexibility to your growing model layout is adding a turntable. This railyard necessity makes it possible to run multiple trains on even a fairly small layout and makes a large layout manageable without curves that do nothing but help turn your trains around. Walthers, Atlas, and Diamond Scale lead the HO turntable market in variety of materials as well as configuration. (Diamond Scale produces many pit and turntable assemblies in basswood.) From branch-style…

Lionel's catalogs are the ultimate destination for model train collectors. Browse the history of Lionel Trains catalogs, with beautiful high-res images.