For Terry Bowie, toy trains always went with Christmas. As a kid in the '50s, Bowie would stand for hours outside Atlanta department store windows, mesmerized by the tiny Lionel engines zipping around ...

"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 ...

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 ...

When 75-year-old David Dansky plays with his toy trains each morning, he’s transported back to a special time when unwrapping a treasured Lionel locomotive on Christmas made him feel like “king of the ...

BRIGHTON, England — At the top of Trafalgar Street, a steep hilly street lined with vintage, bohemian shops, is an overpass that leads to the entrance for Brighton train station. But below the ...