From pre-war models to whimsical holiday sets, vintage train sets have chugged their way into the spotlight. These coveted collectors items have surpassed their status as toys and are now nostalgic ...

Four-year-old Owen Howard and his brother Noah, 2½, stood in identical orange T-shirts, staring with rapt attention as a model train puffed, chugged and tooted its way around an oval track at ...

The Historic Pullman Foundation Model Train Experience is a way to expose people young and old to the hobby as well as ...

"There are no bad train days." That's how collector Craig Chidester feels when he escapes down to his basement and spends time with his electric trains. The 56-year-old Westmont resident is an avid ...

For Terry Bowie, toy trains always went with Christmas. As a kid in the '50s, Bowie would stand for hours outside Atlanta department store windows, mesmerized by the tiny Lionel engines zipping around ...

Magical scenes of LEGO, model trains and nativity sets are among the holiday displays inside the historic Old Lutz School each year.

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 ...

BRIGHTON, England — At the top of Trafalgar Street, a steep hilly street lined with vintage, bohemian shops, is an overpass that leads to the entrance for Brighton train station. But below the ...