Christmas and trains go hand in hand, whether it’s a few cars chugging around the family tree or a basement layout complete with elaborate towns and scenery. Lucky for train enthusiasts of all ages, ...

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 ...

It’s the time of year for gift giving (and gift getting). For some of us, Christmas recalls a time when a tiny electric train ran around the tree on a bumpy carpet, never quite as beautiful as it was ...

What’s Christmas without model trains? While the popularity of locomotives tooting around the Christmas tree may have declined, the nostalgic charm of trains around the holidays has not. Luckily for ...

When members of the Four County Society of Model Engineers decided to enter their modular train layout in the largest train show in North America, they expected to have fun. They did not expect to ...

Trains run the tracks in their faraway land, where the world's problems are traded for Christmas morning. And it's always Christmas morning when the Old Hickory Railroad Museum's doors give way to ...

Usually around this season the Polar Express is reserved to only make stops at various homes and invite children for a peek at life on the rails, and the North Pole. It’s all aboard for the members of ...

HANOVER, Pa. — The holidays are upon us, and there's plenty to do and see across central Pennsylvania for those in the festive spirit! The Greater Hanover Area Fire Museum and the Hanover Area ...

A model train may be a favorite childhood memory or a hobby for teens and adults, and a railroad display around a Christmas tree can be fun for all ages. People can revive magic moments or get ideas ...

Love affairs with trains typically begin like this: A tyke watching in awe as a Lionel train set choo choos around a Christmas tree. Fast forward some number of decades, and you have John Campbell, ...

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 ...

Model trains are chugging down the tracks, zipping around the bend and catching the eyes of East Texans once again at the Gregg County Historical Museum in Longview. The museum’s annual Living History ...