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When he’s not taking care of a majestic marshaling of toy trains, Graham Claytor gets to play with the real thing

The spare and vigorous gentleman on the opposite page, William Graham Claytor, Jr., superintending the departure of a local out of South Sun-Porch Station, D.C., at his brick house in Georgetown, is the only man in Washington, or anywhere else in the country for that matter, wh

For generations the name was as closely associated with Christmas as Santa Claus

A roster of the company’s most desirable products

One prominent Lionel enthusiast and collector, Michael Shames, thinks these are the company’s greatest classics.

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