As my colleagues Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman reported earlier this year, the United States is heading towards its second railroad boom here at the beginning of the ...

Built by the American Locomotive Co. in March 1913, No. 1003 and its Class L-1 2-8-2 sisters served the Minneapolis, St. Paul ...

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 ...

No one can say with certainty when the first Lionel model train was set up to chug around a Christmas tree and surprise children on Christmas morning, but it’s a safe bet that the idea and the ...

NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Legendary model train maker Lionel LLC has emerged from bankruptcy protection, the company's Web site and court documents show. "After more than seven long years of legal ...

A little locomotive legend made a Friday morning stop in southern Lancaster County. More than 100 people were stationed in Strasburg as the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania unveiled a model replica of ...

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It begins to look a lot like Christmas at Richard and Patricia Trzeciak's home just one day after Thanksgiving; that's when Richard, a former electronics engineer, switches holiday gears and bedecks ...

Watch Michael Bertoia appraise a Lionel 700E Hudson scale train model, ca. 1940, in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 2. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American ...

A Columbia model train manufacturer has filed the latest in a series of patent infringement lawsuits aimed at a longtime competitor, alleging he and his company made unauthorized use of technology ...