Lionel: The Pioneer of Holiday Train Sets A key player in popularizing Christmas tree train sets was the Lionel Corporation ... Setting up the tracks, arranging the cars, and creating miniature ...

The day after Thanksgiving was always the day my mom and dad and I would head across the Carey Avenue Bridge to purchase our ...

After rounding the bend, a fully-loaded freight train passes “Wheelie’s Drive-In,” where “National Lampoon’s Christmas ...

Visiting Christmas markets, seeing your favorite theme park all decked out in holiday style, and baking cookies are all time-honored ways to ring in the holiday season. And if taking a Christmas ...

The day after Thanksgiving was always the day my mom and dad and I would head across the Carey Avenue Bridge to purchase our Christmas tree at the Last Chance. Dad would patiently wait for mom to ...

Lionel catalog ... more than she needed for Trains.com, and she would be cutting my article in half. Not that she was discarding my precious words; only that she would be holding them off a few months ...

As a young boy, I loved trains. My parents bought me a Lionel toy set one year for Christmas. Mine was a freight train pulled by a steam locomotive, not the coveted modern passenger set featuring the ...

got two trains for Christmas in 1949. Lucky kid! It turned out his uncle, a doctor then doing his internship at Sacred Heart Hospital in town, showed up on Christmas Eve with a Lionel freight outfit ...

As a young boy, I loved trains. My parents bought me a Lionel toy set one year for Christmas. Mine was a freight train pulled by a steam locomotive, not the coveted modern passenger set featuring the ...

The Hocking Valley Scenic has operated its Santa Trains for over 40 years. These trains feature vintage diesel locomotives ...