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 ...

Two-year-old Matteo Volpi’s eyes sparkled as he looked at a Lionel Train setup at the Hilton Hotel on Saturday. As Thomas the Tank Engine passed in front of him on a miniature train track, Volpi ...

Join Classic Toy Trains Editor Rene Schweitzer as she visits Lionel Trains, LLC headquarters and speaks with Audio Engineer ...

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 ...

His father always set up an elaborate network of Lionel model trains late on Dec. 24, so when Frank Winner and his little brother, Jim, got up Christmas mornings, they’d find the living room of the ...

For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Santa Claus made an appearance at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg, which set up a Lionel ...

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 ...