A group of people who gathered in 1994 at Chicago’s historic Union Station weren’t there to take the train. They were there to talk trains, and ended up making a bit of history themselves. It was the ...

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 ...

A model train layout is a wonder of the imagination and a gateway to another world as evidenced in this presentation First follow a train club as it reproduces Lionels legendary 1949 Manhattan ...

FORTVILLEWhen John Kitterman was looking for a workshop where he could house a business building model train layouts, the concrete building available for rent wasn\'t what he wanted.Nestled on a quiet ...

EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest models ...

MOOSIC — As a kid Dave Sage couldn’t afford to buy a Lionel train set. As an adult, he’s making up for it. The 60-year-old police officer came to Grzyboski’s Trains for National Lionel Train Day with ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Santa Claus made an appearance at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg, which set up a Lionel ...

With its loose shingles and rusted sides, the listing water tank looks as timeworn as the model steam engine that chugs around the 12-foot-by-24-foot display. But it was brand-new only recently. Ken ...

SIGOURNEY - I should have brought binoculars. That's the only way to see from one end of Lyle Dumont's new model railroad to the other. It's 90 feet long, nearly a third of a football field. "This IS ...

WOODEN TOY TRAIN PLAY DAYS. Railroad Museum of Long Island, 416 Griffing Ave., Riverhead, 631-727-7920, rmli.org. Tracks and train play area for kids, ride the Pumpkin Patch Train, pumpkin painting.