SIGOURNEY - I should have brought binoculars. That's the only way to see from one end of Lyle Dumont's new model railroad to the other. It's 90 feet long, nearly a third of a football field. "This IS ...

MANSFIELD, Texas -- A train and three rail cars sit in the tiny shadow of a water tower in Don Hughes' workshop, causing him to smile. "That was the train that started it all," he said, "the train on ...

As kids for generations have done, Landon Tennant looks longingly at a streamlined Lionel Santa Fe engine as it chugs around a tiny display with houses, mountains and bridges at TrainLand, a hobby ...

They`re called toy trains, but the men who own and operate them refuse to think of them as such. ”It is NOT a toy. I have engines that are worth $2,000 apiece,” says Stan Roy, talking about the unique ...

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 ...

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, ...