The Basics

O & O27 Operating Manuals

Starting with Toy Trains Booklet

Article on postwar Lionel accessories  (Trains.com may require registration)

The Ten Commandments of Model Railroad Yard Design

Scenery Basics

Phasing Transformers

Basic Information on Electrical Switches

RR-Track - Graphical software for designing sectional track layouts

Right Track - Free software for designing layouts using Atlas O track

Lionel Trains Library - Information on Lionel's famous postwar line

O Gauge Watch.com   O gauge News and Information 

The Story of Lionel "Super O" Track

The Gilbert Gallery  Many American Flyer accessories are suitable for O gauge

The Art of Model Railroading - Frank Ellison's Classic 1944 series

ZW Transformer manual

KW Transformer manual

Trainmaster

Interactive Tutorial - Learn Trainmaster Command on-line

Electric RR Company - Solutions to convert locomotives to command operation

Digital Dynamics - Solutions to convert locomotives to command operation

Layouts

Lionel Lines.Net  Building a Post-war Lionel Layout  

Max's Trains

Pennsylvania & Western

Rich Battista's Black Diamond Railway

Large Postwar Style Lionel Layout

Ray's Super-O Display Layout     

Hi-Railers Unlimited                   

The Layout Page                        

Pete's Practice Layout               

Norm's Train Pages                    

Girard and Oak Park Railroad      

   

Robert's Lionel Train Layout       

Mike's  O Gauge Train Site

Treat Station's Train Display

Ron's Little People - Plasticville Heaven

Layouts of the 1940's, 50's, 80's and today

Bob and Elizabeth Jakl's  'O' Scale layout

The Story of Lionel's 1957 Showroom Layout

Recreation of the 1949 Lionel Showroom Layout

O Scale Appalachian and Ohio

New York Central Model RR

Lionel Pre-war Trains  Celebrating the colorful trains made before WWII

Treni Elettrici Francesco's toy train blog, check out his layout photos and Sound Commander program

Halliday Junction Website  and YouTube videos

Mike Stella's Lionel Lines

Eric's Trains

Videos

Iron Ponies  A vintage Lionel promotional film

Custom Decorated Trains

Custom O Gauge (from my old web site)

Talking Station Recordings from vintage American Flyer, Noma and Marx stations

Joseph L. Mania's Site

S-Trains Site

The Prototype

RailPictures.Net 260,000 high quality photos on-line

Virginian Railway

Product Reviews

Product Review Page (from my old web site)

Manufacturers

Lionel Trains 

Lionel on Facebook

The Lionel Corporation (MTH + Lionel tinplate offerings)

MTH   

Williams Electric Trains  

Weaver Models

Atlas O  

Suppliers

TW Trainworx

Scott's Odds 'n Ends - DPDT relay, operates the MTH crossing gates

All Electronics - Color coded wire

"Wallies" Clouds - Pre-pasted wallpaper clouds, you can cut them to make unique cloud patterns

George Tebolt - Parts Dealer

This and That

FiddlersGreen - Card models of vintage aircraft

Billboards - Lionel, Plasticville, Marx & American Flyer billboard art you can print and use in your frames

Fritz's House of Billboards - Free billboards for Lionel billboard frames

Lionel Trains Horizonal Rules - Created many of the great graphics used on the site

Dan's Wig Wag Site - Photos of classic wig-wag signals, some still in operation

WishBookWeb Classic Sears Christmas Wishbook catalogs

Christmas Trackplan - Three Times Around The Tree

Lionel Toy Trains

PRR Station Signs - Make your own and print them out

Forums

O Gauge Railroading

Classic Toy Trains

Model Train Journal

Bachmann Trains

Yahoogroups Mailing Lists - Great Discussion

TCA Mailing List

Super O Mailing List

Lionel Fastrack Mailing List

TCA Members Group