In Popular Culture
- The Comedy Inc. sketch, "Ernest the Engine and Others", uses L.G.B models, buildings, and track.
- In the 1999 movie Stuart Little Stuart explores George's indoor city-themed model railway world. A Santa Fe F7 and a F7B with a matching caboose goes around the track and Stuart appears before the train hits him on a piece of track.
- in The Santa Clause two LGB passenger trains are featured in the beginning of the film and later a LGB Mogul holiday cargo freight train circles around the room during the part when Scott and Charlie went to the North Pole to go to the bed there. It reappeared again between the middle of the film and the end of the film
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