Hey that’s a neat … layout?
I WISH I COULD SHOW YOU THE LAYOUT that’s on the cover this month. It’s really a spectacular piece of model railroad construction. Unfortunately it doesn’t belong in the magazine, because it’s N scale. Now and again I like to “break the fourth wall” as it were and show people how we do some of the things around here. In that spirit, here’s how the cover came together. When I heard the cover subject would be a set of Lionel Canadian Pacific F3s, I immediately thought of some of the great travel posters CP produced during the golden age of rail travel. Many of them depicted Rocky Mountain scenes. They really made one want to visit Canada by train! The engines are similar to the ones belonging to George Schmid in his desirable Lionel…