Which Lionel train sets are best? Lionel has been making trains for kids, adults and model railroading hobbyists for more than 120 years. Ever since the first kid played with Lionel’s first toy train ...

After almost four decades working out of a sleepy Detroit suburb, Lionel, the toy train and model railroad manufacturer, is back on Madison Avenue, and trying to bring model trains out of the hobbyist ...

Andrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Lionel has been making ...

Tourists to the Volunteer State offer many reasons for coming to Tennessee, but members of the Lionel Collectors Club of America (LCCA) will visit the Chattanooga area for fun with actual and model ...

Chris France’s neighbor looked out the window of her Beltsville home recently and saw something in Mr. France’s yard that startled her. “She thought it was an animal at first,” Mr. France remembers.

That’s what George Groff paid for a Lionel train set for his 2-year-old son Gary in 1945. George had no idea that his modest investment and what began as nothing much more than an under-the-Christmas ...

All aboard! The first-ever National Lionel Train Day takes place Saturday on Long Island. Celebrating 115 years, the iconic model train company is kicking off the holiday season with family-friendly ...

For many people, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a toy train set, the whir of the wheels on the tracks, the lights and whistles and steam. And then when the new year rolls around, and the ...