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 ...

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. When you think of ...

Edinboro Area Historical Society is featuring classic model railroad displays during a free Christmas Open House ...

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 ...

Ronald Saypol, who transformed Lionel Corp., the biggest U.S. maker of electric model trains, into a toy retailer that years later went bankrupt, has died. He was 85. He died Nov. 28 at a nursing home ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

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 ...

There is much nostalgia in model trains. Grandfathers who grew up running Lionel trains later bought them for their children, who bought them for their children, said Irene Burrell, 65, who owns ...

Each November, Small Business Saturday spotlights smaller companies. With that in mind, we talked with Kenneth Bianco Jr., director of sales and marketing and third-generation member of the family ...

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 ...

Never mind the trains, they want the bricks. Yes, the bricks. Forget that they’re no more unusual than any one of a million rail spikes securing a length of track anywhere in America. Doesn’t matter ...