Lionel's perfect postwar train set features a classic steam engine and a whistle tender pulling five different and very colorful freight cars or five streamlined passenger cars. How, you may be ...

I realize that a typical Classic Toy Trains reader may not be ... even through the turnouts. I also set the cars on pieces of MTH RealTrax and old Lionel tubular track, and they lined up perfectly.

BIANCO JR: This layout here has three different Lionel train sets on it running, and kids could operate the remotes over there. You see him pressing the horn (laughter). (SOUNDBITE OF TOY TRAIN ...