The recently announced Round 2 Lionel acquisition could reshape the model train industry, potentially changing the toy train hobby.

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 ...

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 ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...

The Amherst Railway Society’s 53rd Railroad Hobby Show will fill four buildings and nearly 11 acres of floor space when it arrives at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield Jan. 25 and 26.