Note: This article originally appeared in the September 2000 issue of Classic Toy Trains. In celebration of Lionel’s 125th ...

Line, Menards, and other 3-rail O gauge trains? Do you like big trains but have a small budget? This is the channel for you! Novices are welcome here! I received my first Lionel set when I was two ...

The iconic Tornado steam locomotive is pictured steaming through Horton-in-Ribblesdale station.

AN iconic steam locomotive is set to appear at a city centre station this weekend. Bradford Forster Square will host the famous "Tornado" - a Class A1 pacific locomotive - on Saturday, May 31.

A highlight of the show were steam-operated locomotives, sponsored by the New Hampshire Garden Railroad Society. Instead of coal, their water tanks were fired up by butane.

The Lionel No. 773 4-6-4 Hudson steam engine and tender from 1950 did much to revive the passion dedicated O gauge modeler Walt Urban Jr. has for toy trains. He reminds us that hobbyists who grew up ...

A guard on duty pictured looking out of a carriage leaving Oakworth Station on the first day of the annual Steam Gala weekend on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Two iconic locomotives will be powering into town on the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) line next month.

Marx was a competing model train manufacturer. Soon to follow was a gift of a Lionel O Gauge Diesel Locomotive set. My dad built a 4-foot-by-6-foot layout table to run my trains on, which I still ...

Lionel trains turns 125, celebrating more than a century of holiday magic. From historic models to smartphone-controlled locomotives, these iconic toy trains continue to captivate kids and ...

A Lionel toy train around the Christmas tree continues to be a fixture of holiday tradition in some families. The iconic American company is about to roll into its 125th anniversary.