Which Lionel train sets are best? Lionel has been making trains for kids, adults and model railroading hobbyists for more than 120 years. Ever since the first kid played with Lionel’s first toy train ...

As kids for generations have done, Landon Tennant looks longingly at a streamlined Lionel Santa Fe engine as it chugs around a tiny display with houses, mountains and bridges at TrainLand, a hobby ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

"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 ...

Appraisal: Lionel Girls Train Set, ca. 1957, from Minneapolis Hour 1. Watch Noel Barrett's appraisal of a Lionel girls train set, ca. 1957.

Q -I would appreciate an estimate of the value of a Lionel train set that dates back to 1928-32. It is Outfit No. 296 and is O gauge scale. The train set consists of Engine No. 253, two No. 207 ...

STRASBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Lancaster County’s 1700 square foot model train layout got its start with just one train under a Christmas tree in 1945. Shortly after returning home to Strasburg from World ...

Detroit may be the birthplace of the Model T — but it's also a special place for lovers of model trains. They go together, in a way. Kids at heart who love industrial design, engineering and the ...