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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 ...
Longtime New Mexico State Fair goers will tell you the real magic of the fair is in the buildings but moving the fairgrounds ...
A Fairbanks-Morse H16-44 diesel locomotive, based on a Phase III prototype, is now available from Rapido Trains. The HO scale ...
There are about nine model train clubs on Long Island, but apparently only the West Island Model Railroad Club in Hicksville allows visitors to run its trains at open houses. And at this year’s ...
Pacific Grove >> “This is what happens when the boys’ toys get out of hand,” said Ken Burns, while standing next to a miniature live steam locomotive Sunday at the American Tin Cannery. A retired ...
A train show chugs into town next weekend. It’s the Tidewater Division of the National Model Railroad Association’s Train Show and Sale on Saturday and Sept. 18 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center ...
"It's losing speed here," Craig Coble says, gesturing at the rail as an Amtrak train whizzes by. Coble leans in and crimps the joints between a few segments of track. The next time the train passes, ...
The East Cascade Model Railroad Club had their annual open house event on Saturday and Sunday. The club opens once a year to ...
If you love both classic rock and miniature locomotives, have we got an auction for you. Canadian rock icon Neil Young is auctioning off some of his personal belongings, and the set includes some of ...
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 ...
Stacey Walthers Naffah, CEO and president of family–owned and operated model train company Walthers Trains, joins Asking for a Trend host Josh Lipton to discuss how small businesses are being affected ...