Classic Toy Trains

OLLIE CLARK’S O GAUGE LAYOUT

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The Lionel Flying Yankee passenger train departing the main station on Ollie Clark’s 61⁄ x 71⁄ 2- foot three-rail

2 home display wasn’t originally a Christmas gift to him, but it honestly could have been. This nonagenari­an has been enjoying toy trains for as long as he can remember, and his memory stretches back to the 1930s, when Lionel introduced its classic O gauge model of the Boston & Maine streamline­r. His grandson Henry Nalence snapped this picture while visiting Ollie in Maple Glen, Pa., making sure to arrange several of the vintage vehicles and die-cast metal figures near the prewar trains and accessorie­s.

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