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 ...

More than a century after they were invented, toy trains remain popular Christmas toys. Showing a Lionel train set in motion with smoke and train sounds at the Pittston Train Shop, owner John Merlino ...

It’s train week at Somerset Academy of Las Vegas, 7038 Sky Pointe Drive. Second-graders in their pajamas talk excitedly among themselves outside one of the classrooms of their public charter school ...

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 ...

"There are no bad train days." That's how collector Craig Chidester feels when he escapes down to his basement and spends time with his electric trains. The 56-year-old Westmont resident is an avid ...

Which train set for kids is best? Train sets for kids reach back into the past and span generations. Model railroading is considered one of the great family hobbies. Train sets come in so many shapes ...

When you're clearing out old hobby supplies, it's easy to think many of those items have outlived their usefulness. However, ...

Along with fir trees wrapped in strings of red and candy canes stuffed in long red stockings, toy trains are timeless images associated with Christmas. Earlier this year, a store specializing in those ...

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.

WYOMING -- Jerry Frye never had model trains as a child. Now he has thousands. "I've always been interested in trains, but my parents never bought me one," said Frye, who owns Hobby Recycling at 2313 ...

A woman with a child dashes to board a passenger train, their coats flying in the breeze. A man sits crossed-legged on a bench, waiting for another train to arrive on the next track. Across the rail ...