This holiday season, the New York Transit Museum’s Grand Central Gallery & Store presents the Holiday Train Show, a cherished ...

No one can say with certainty when the first Lionel model train was set up to chug around a Christmas tree and surprise children on Christmas morning, but it’s a safe bet that the idea and the ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC• Train layout, Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel lobby Wednesday, July 17, through Friday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.• Train Show (sale), Track 29 BuildingTrading hall to contain 150 ...

There is much nostalgia in model trains. Grandfathers who grew up running Lionel trains later bought them for their children, who bought them for their children, said Irene Burrell, 65, who owns ...

Two-year-old Matteo Volpi’s eyes sparkled as he looked at a Lionel Train setup at the Hilton Hotel on Saturday. As Thomas the Tank Engine passed in front of him on a miniature train track, Volpi ...

Railroad giant Union Pacific Corp. thinks it can–thinks it can, thinks it can–squeeze royalty payments out of model-train makers that put the UP logo on their tiny train sets. But it may face an ...

Mike Flick doesn't remember it, but his mother told him when he was a little boy growing up in the small village of Elida, Ohio, that she used to set him down for hours in front of a model-train set ...