The Blue Comet. The Hudson. The F-3 Santa Fe. If you are a toy train enthusiast, these names no doubt produce the same rush of nostalgia that the Caterpillar, Cyclone and Whip do for roller coaster ...
The Oakton Train Yard is the grand, lifelong project of Evanston resident David Homer, whose fascination with model ...
Line, Menards, and other 3-rail O gauge trains? Do you like big trains but have a small budget? This is the channel for you! Novices are welcome here! I received my first Lionel set when I was two ...
Jeff Haertlein wandered around the La Crosse Center on Saturday with a pile of papers, listing the parts he needed to repair one of his first-ever model trains. When one of his oldest engines began to ...
For many baby boomers, and some younger folks as well, the December holidays are synonymous with model trains. Many in the postwar generation grew up with Lionel or American Flyer rolling stock ...
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 ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The model train running around the Christmas tree, watched by happy pyjama-clad children out of a Norman Rockwell illustration, is a ...
As my colleagues Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman reported earlier this year, the United States is heading towards its second railroad boom here at the beginning of the ...
SCRANTON, Pa. — Organizers with the Lionel Collectors Club of America are setting up model railroads inside the Hilton in downtown Scranton. They're getting ready for the 55th annual Lionel Collectors ...