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 ...

The fancy model trains produced by renowned toymaking company Maerklin were a hit with GIs in the aftermath of World War II when U.S. forces set up shop around the German town of Goppingen. Nowadays, ...

Lionel trains turns 125, celebrating more than a century of holiday magic. From historic models to smartphone-controlled locomotives, these iconic... Trains, tracks, and tradition: Lionel celebrates ...

The Oakton Train Yard is the grand, lifelong project of Evanston resident David Homer, whose fascination with model ...

“We reached Darjeeling a couple of days ago and had booked our return tickets to NJP by a toy train,” said Md Sheikh, a resident of Calcutta who arrived with three family members. “After the ...

In the main room of a local pub in the western Victorian town of Natimuk, Brock Mewett shows off his toy trains to raise ...

In the 1920s, as Argentina's economy boomed and its railway system expanded, toy trains began to capture the imaginations of children and adults. Because British investors and engineers played a key ...

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 ...