From pre-war models to whimsical holiday sets, vintage train sets have chugged their way into the spotlight. These coveted collectors items have surpassed their status as toys and are now nostalgic ...

Four-year-old Owen Howard and his brother Noah, 2½, stood in identical orange T-shirts, staring with rapt attention as a model train puffed, chugged and tooted its way around an oval track at ...

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"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 ...

For Terry Bowie, toy trains always went with Christmas. As a kid in the '50s, Bowie would stand for hours outside Atlanta department store windows, mesmerized by the tiny Lionel engines zipping around ...

When 75-year-old David Dansky plays with his toy trains each morning, he’s transported back to a special time when unwrapping a treasured Lionel locomotive on Christmas made him feel like “king of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Collectors and fans of toy trains will find plenty to do this weekend during the Rocky Mountain Toy Train Show. Now in its 32nd year, the show has moved from ...