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Toy Train Desktop Wallpaper

Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
CLASSIC TOY TRAINS offers these images of prewar and postwar trains, as well as scenes from featured layouts as background choices for your computer screen. Click on the image size appropriate for your monitor and drag the image onto your desktop.

The Cascade & Timber Trail Ry. is the latest CTT project railroad. Click here for the entire series of building this layout from a starter set to its realistically scenicked, action-filled completion.

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Use this image from Herb Lindsay's O gauge New York Central & Pennsylvania Railroad layout as a background on your computer screen. Click on the image size appropriate for your monitor and drag the image onto your desktop.

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This is one of the scenes on Dennis Brennan's Sandy Harbor Terminal Ry., a four-part layout building series featured in Classic Toy Trains magazine.

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The back issues detailing this project are: December 2007, January 2008, February 2008, and March 2008.
Fred Dole's re-creation of Raymondale was featured in the October 2008 issue. It is home to several original buildings from the Delta Lines of the 1940s.

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The clean exteriors of the Brisith Bassett-Lowke LMS Princess Class 462 make this a very good model of the original prototype.

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Lionel's O-27 Union Pacific streamliner is probably the most endearing offering from Lionel's 1950, 50th anniversary catalog.

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Lionel's Standard gauge Transcontinental Limited, the ultimate outfit in its day, is one of the biggest and most powerful and flamboyant trains Lionel has ever made.

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Lionel's Standard gauge Blue Comet, considered by some to be the legendary train manufacturer's finest steamer, stands out for its two-tone blue paint scheme.

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Lionel's "scale detailed" uncataloged outfit, led by a locomotive of no particular prototype, reveals the excellent realism that Lionel managed to incorporate into its middle-price-range locomotives and cars immediately before the World War II.

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American Flyer's no. 21920 Missouri Pacific Alco PA combination, much cherished by both collectors and operators, made its debut in the American Flyer line in 1958. In 1964, it was the last PA diesel combination that A.C. Gilbert cataloged.

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Lionel's General set, based upon a woodburning 4-4-0 locomotive that actually saw wartime service on the Western & Atlantic railroad, is loved for authentically representing the 19th century prototypes and for its colorful paint scheme.

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Lionel's 1950 2-8-4 Berkshire steam locomotive was the workhorse of the post-World War II Lionel O gauge line.

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Lionel's Super Speedliner, the first streamlined outfit, included everything that made the Lionel trains of the 1950s great - a wide array of add-on details, Magne-Traction, a horn, and more. Plus it wore the Santa Fe's unforgettable red-and-silver paint scheme.

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