George W. Hilton’s “American Narrow Gauge Railroads” (Stanford University Press, 1990, 580pp) is a great resource.

Running the Pennsylvania Railroad Congressional today. 1963 GG1 (with decals), 3 original 1955 cars and a later dining car. I use that instead of the dome car since the real Congressional never used one!

Lionel freight on the carpet

The Texas Special runs again. Merry Christmas!

Don’t know. We got him at the animal shelter. He’d been there 11 months without being adopted.

For you transit historians, Birney the cat checks out Lionel's model of a single truck Birney streetcar.

It's the holiday season, and that means it's time to set up the Lionel train on the living room carpet. Here's last year's layout