DID YOU KNOW?• Actor/singer Mandy Patinkin and singer/songwriter Neil Young are Lionel train collectors/operators.• Frank Sinatra built a special building on his Palm Springs, Calif., compound to ...

A Lionel toy train around the Christmas tree continues to be a fixture of holiday tradition in some families. The iconic American company is about to roll into its 125th anniversary. When you think of ...

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 ...

Jerry Calabrese readily admits he's not a "fan boy" when it comes to Lionel trains; he doesn't own every locomotive, freight car or caboose Lionel ever made. But Calabrese, a Montclair resident who is ...

Love affairs with trains typically begin like this: A tyke watching in awe as a Lionel train set choo choos around a Christmas tree. Fast forward some number of decades, and you have John Campbell, ...

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 ...

AUGUSTA — Blake Lecher, 14, leaned down to table-level, looking through his video camera intently to line up the perfect shot of the O-Gauge Lionel model train rounding a corner in the tracks and ...