got two trains for Christmas in 1949. Lucky kid! It turned out his uncle, a doctor then doing his internship at Sacred Heart Hospital in town, showed up on Christmas Eve with a Lionel freight ...

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. KUOW is ...

When you think of Christmas, you might think of model trains around a Christmas tree. And there's a good chance it's a Lionel. The iconic American toy train company is celebrating its 125th ...

While the exact origins of placing trains under Christmas trees isn't known, their popularity can be traced back to the early 1900s, when the Lionel Corporation, a prominent American toy ...

In Dix Hills, nearly 80 members of the TMB (Train Masters of Babylon) Model Train Club meet regularly to bring their own ...

Model railroad club hosts Christmas show In the spirit of the decades-long link between the Christmas holiday and toy trains, Luce Line Railroad Club Inc. is hosting a special showing of ...

Model train collecting is a hobby that families have shared together over the generations — dating back to the time the popular model train manufacturer, Lionel Corporation, started producing them in ...