Lionel's perfect postwar train set features a classic steam engine ... just as Lionel did offer back in 1950. Another reader opted for the O gauge set from 1953 with a No. 681 Turbine handling ...

showed up on Christmas Eve with a Lionel freight outfit for his favorite nephew. The problem was, however, the boy's parents had already bought him an electric train. So in 1950, 5-year-old Dickie ...