BOB AND JONI KING’S O GAUGE LAYOUT

Red wheels, red roofs, red towers, and red lights – so much on the 6 x 8-foot O gauge layout Bob King built with input and encouragement from his wife, Joni, boasts a bit of red. Maybe the emphasis on that color was inevitable, since this display occupies a spot in the Kings’ home in Roseville, Calif. Amid the prewar and postwar accessories you can pick out two of Lionel’s O-27 stalwarts from the 1930s: the nos. 258 and 260E steamers. The green stripes on the latter look snazzy – a sweet break from all the crimson and scarlet and, yes, rose.