For the show, a local HO Modular Group set up its Seattle Pacific and Eastern Railroad display which included Tacoma Rail ...

Railroad displays at Christmastime evoke an American era in which trains brought relatives, holiday gifts and childhood memories to town.

This reporter was briefed on the Lionel ... 9-year-old has a model of a Saturn 5 at home, along with several different types of train sets. “I have TrackMaster trains, wooden trains, electric ...

An inventor named Joshua Lionel Cowen started Lionel in 1900 and came up with a battery-powered “Electric Express ... from a gift of a train set when I was 5 years old.

A Lionel Thomas the Tank Engine train set enters a tunnel at TrainLand. It's one of the many brands Lionel licenses. Four-year old train collector Augie DiMartino watches the trains go by at ...

He points towards the model trains. "This layout here has three different Lionel train sets on it running and ... really was working with electric motors. It was a fairly whiz-bang sort of toy.

By the early 1900s, Lionel began producing electric trains ... whether in a vintage tinplate model or a modern-scale replica. Model trains have come a long way from their tinplate origins ...

I knew he was fascinated by the toy electric train variety, but over time, he revealed that he was an accomplished real train connoisseur too. Old-fashioned ... their train set was not fancy.

These are starter sets aimed at kids and families. According to an interview I did with Howard Hitchcock, Lionel’s CEO, “we are trying to engage families … with a lower price point.” I realize that a ...