Len Carparelli (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean and unmarked inside and out. A few small wrinkles or bends along the top edge of front and back covers. A few pages have a mildly bent or creased corner. One light vertical crease near the spine of the back cover. Very little wear otherwise. The magazine will be backed with cardboard and carefully packed in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Build a Holiday Layout from Styrofoam Sheets" (This clever ring-shaped layout can be built entirely from plastic foam with a few hours of work) by Mark Edwards; "Layout Look-Back" (The final installment of our look back of layouts published in the first 15 years of Classic Toy Trains magazine focuses on Christmas); "Put MTH Catenary on Your Layout" (MTH's catenary set offers flexibility right out of the box) by Neil Besougloff; "Building Holiday Spirit" (You can build a Christmas layout just like the Coleman family) by Bob Keller; "Make an Elevated Bridge Line" (Simple wood components create the look of girder bridges) by Dick Teal; "Christmas Memories" (Your photos of toy trains around the tree) by John A. Grams; "Visit a Pro-Built Layout" (Today, Jack Fox is 'old enough to play' with his custom-built O gauge layout) by Paul J. Dolkos; "The Best Diesels Lionel Never Made" (Green Alco diesels lead this 'newly minted' postwar set) by Len Carparelli; "Dream Collection" (Joe Grzyboski has the postwar trains everyone wants) by Roger Carp; "Developing Flyer's Oil Drum Loader" (A mysterious and prolific outsider created one of American Flyer's most enduring accessories) by Ted E. Hamler; "How to Wire a Crossing Gate and Signal" (How to wire Lionel's crossing gate and signal three different ways) by Louis Koumoundouros; "Editor's Desk" (Layouts without control panels); "Correspondence" (Repairing motors, DCS, simple water); "News and Notes" (New trains at the Model and Hobby Expo, Lionel lottery tickets, Take a Train to Work Day, toy train boxes"; "Point of View" (Four generations of Christmas trains); "Product News" (K-Line's American Freedom Train, Kramer Products animated workers, S gauge Frisco cars); "Questions & Answers" (Tricky Outlaw Car, troublesome track switches, adding transformer fuses, DC motors in AC trains); "Talkin' Toy Trains" (Which is more important, the tree or the train?); "Product Reviews" (Lionel SDSOMAC diesel, MTH RailKing RS-27, Dorfan electric reproduction, K-Line steam starter set, Williams Hudson long-term report); "Events" (Upcoming shows and exhibits); "Ad Index" and "Collectible Classics" (Gilbert had the right chemistry with its Penn Salt tank car).