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 ...

TOPPENISH, Wash. - A Toy Train Christmas, which was still being put together last week when I visited, will bring as many as 5,000 visitors to the Northern Pacific Railway Museum over the next three ...

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. When you think of ...

Mr. and Mrs. Claus greet 18-month-old Micah Lampman and his parents, Ralph and Noriko, on the way to the Northern Pacific Railway Museum's "North Pole" during the Toy Train Christmas event in ...

Ken Bianco Sr. and son Ken Bianco Jr., owners of TrainLand in Lynbrook, New York are the largest retailers of Lionel trains in the nation. (Sara Messinger for NPR) As kids for generations have done, ...

Back before air travel and the rise in popularity of automobiles, trains were the country's main source for delivering goods. Families often chose train travel for the holidays and our nation's ...

Christmas is just around the corner so it's time to make sure seasonal train displays are ready to deliver holiday fun – toy train style! Let's start with locomotives and rolling stock. Before trying ...

When you think of Christmas, you might picture a model train looping around a Christmas tree, and there's a good chance the train is made by Lionel. The company is celebrating its 125th anniversary.

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 ...