Angela Trotta Thomas’ status as the only artist ever to be licensed by iconic toy train manufacturer Lionel has gotten her featured in plenty of magazines and catalogs during the past 25 years. But ...
As kids for generations have done, Landon Tennant looks longingly at a streamlined Lionel Santa Fe engine as it chugs around a tiny display with houses, mountains and bridges at TrainLand, a hobby ...
A group of people who gathered in 1994 at Chicago’s historic Union Station weren’t there to take the train. They were there to talk trains, and ended up making a bit of history themselves. It was the ...
Jerry Calabrese readily admits he's not a "fan boy" when it comes to Lionel trains; he doesn't own every locomotive, freight car or caboose Lionel ever made. But Calabrese, a Montclair resident who is ...
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 ...