CANFIELD, Ohio -- Lionel is one of the best-known model train makers in the world. It has fans (and customers) just about everywhere, and its products can sell for hundreds of dollars. In the last 113 ...
As my colleagues Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman reported earlier this year, the United States is heading towards its second railroad boom here at the beginning of the ...
Jerry Calabrese readily admits he's not a "fan boy" when it comes to Lionel trains; he doesn't own every locomotive, freight car or caboose Lionel ever made. But Calabrese, a Montclair resident who is ...
SCRANTON, Pa. — Organizers with the Lionel Collectors Club of America are setting up model railroads inside the Hilton in downtown Scranton. They're getting ready for the 55th annual Lionel Collectors ...
Santa Claus made an appearance at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg, which set up a Lionel Train Display for the holidays. Santa visited the museum on weekends before Christmas, giving ...
From an “L” train traveling through of downtown Chicago to a freight train delivering tanker cars to the Citgo oil refinery in Lemont, the locomotives chugging through an array of scenes amazed ...
Ronald Saypol, who transformed Lionel Corp., the biggest U.S. maker of electric model trains, into a toy retailer that years later went bankrupt, has died. He was 85. He died Nov. 28 at a nursing home ...
Trains, planes and automobiles are all passions of longtime Deerfield resident Richard Southon. He is currently sharing that love of railroads with the community at the Patty Turner Center. When he ...