For many people, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a toy train set, the whir of the wheels on the tracks, the lights and whistles and steam. And then when the new year rolls around, and the ...

The idea of a custom run product - a manufacturer creating a special item for a retailer not sold in its catalog - is nothing new. Custom toy train products have existed for more than 100 years.

The fantasy plays out every night, just off the basement floor in homes all over America. With a set-up - a kid, or, more likely, a grown man - can pretend to be master of his own railroading universe ...

SCOTT CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Life is a journey, and for Bob Baldwin of Scott City, Missouri, that journey has always followed rails. “He loved trains since he was eight years old,” said his wife, Cyndi ...

CARMEL — Mr. Muffin has trouble explaining the allure. But there they are every Saturday — 100-some-odd visitors, young and old, captivated by the model locomotives that wind their way through ...

Here are some numbers that help explain why jaws drop at the first sight of the model-train set that tech entrepreneur Peter Hambling is having built in the basement of his Medina family home: • The ...

WATSONTOWN — When he was 3 years old, Bill McCollin, of Watsontown, was given his first Lionel train set, complete with an engine, track and transformer. For Christmas that year, his dad purchased the ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — In Pinellas Park, there's an age-old business that not only survived the pandemic but grew stronger because of it. Like the real-life steel titans, their models are made to ...

There is a whirring hum punctuated by clicks as the model trains make their way around the oval track. They pass through the tunnel, over the bridge and through the buildings that suggest a country ...

Thousands of model train enthusiasts once again made the pilgrimage to West Springfield for the “Railroad Hobby Show” put on by the Amherst Railway Society. Big trains, little trains, diesel, freight ...