For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

Elkridge, MD 21075, announced a 2026 series of Halloween items as part of the RailKing line. Items include an ES44 Diesel ...

Harry Buhler showed children how to run a model train around a track. Eliza Empey, 8, backed up the train and then raced it around the rails past a model train station with tiny people on benches. Her ...

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 ...

For most involved in the hobby, model trains involve buying track from off-the-shelf suppliers, and lots of delicate painting and finishing. Conversely, [Ivan] just wanted to make something fast and ...

When he was 4 years old, John DiCello woke up on Christmas morning to find a model train beneath the tree in the family’s home on West Norwegian Street in Pottsville. Made by Marx, it was a locomotive ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — In Pinellas Park, there's an age-old business that not only survived the pandemic but grew stronger because of it. Like the real-life steel titans, their models are made to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Leah Goodman, 10, and her mother Carrie, right, look at a detailed train and town diorama on display at Caboose Hobbies ...

The Alto Model Train Museum Spring Toy Train Swap Meet will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at the Blair County Convention Center, One Convention Center Drive, Altoona. The event ...

Young Milagros Lazaro unloaded pieces of lumber, cut wood, dumped fake coal ash and let sirens blow, all with the push of a button. The Derry girl did all that and more under the watchful eye of her ...

Model trains bring out the kid in everyone, including Steve Storey, treasurer of the Elkhart Model Railroad Club. He became disinterested in model trains when he was a teenager, but his ...

HEBER SPRINGS -- Amid the tensions and turmoil of 2026, Ruland Junction Toy Train Museum promises "a trip back in time to a simpler era." Its elaborate model-train layout "recreates a world before ...