More than a century after they were invented, toy trains remain popular Christmas toys. Showing a Lionel train set in motion with smoke and train sounds at the Pittston Train Shop, owner John Merlino ...

"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 ...

Chris France’s neighbor looked out the window of her Beltsville home recently and saw something in Mr. France’s yard that startled her. “She thought it was an animal at first,” Mr. France remembers.

Maybe you remember those days of yesteryear when kids played with trains. And if the locomotives, cars and railroad tracks were made by the Lionel Corp., they could proudly boast that they owned the ...

For some people, the aroma of Christmas is freshly baked cookies or a newly cut pine. For me, it’s the oily burn of my 71-year-old Lionel sparking across equally ancient tracks. The train is one of ...