Dick Christianson, the founding editor of Classic Toy Trains and the consummate cheerleader for Lionel trains of the postwar era, was recently asked about his top locomotive. He's owned several ...

In January 2022, when Lionel released the Volume 1 Big Book, a few pages beyond the Visionline Class A you'd find an old, but familiar locomotive, the A5. Tooling from K-Line became the skeleton ...