As my colleagues Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman reported earlier this year, the United States is heading towards its second railroad boom here at the beginning of the ...

CANFIELD, Ohio -- Lionel is one of the best-known model train makers in the world. It has fans (and customers) just about everywhere, and its products can sell for hundreds of dollars. In the last 113 ...

Lexington Lionel model train hobbyist Tom Dubusky, 79, perfected his Lionel train table with six trains, 2 trolleys and about ...

LEXINGTON ― Tom Dubusky's love of trains has stretched from his childhood through raising a family and into his retirement.

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 ...

Santa Claus made an appearance at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg, which set up a Lionel Train Display for the holidays. Santa visited the museum on weekends before Christmas, giving ...

From an “L” train traveling through of downtown Chicago to a freight train delivering tanker cars to the Citgo oil refinery in Lemont, the locomotives chugging through an array of scenes amazed ...

A little locomotive legend made a Friday morning stop in southern Lancaster County. More than 100 people were stationed in Strasburg as the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania unveiled a model replica of ...

Ronald Saypol, who transformed Lionel Corp., the biggest U.S. maker of electric model trains, into a toy retailer that years later went bankrupt, has died. He was 85. He died Nov. 28 at a nursing home ...