DID YOU KNOW?• Actor/singer Mandy Patinkin and singer/songwriter Neil Young are Lionel train collectors/operators.• Frank Sinatra built a special building on his Palm Springs, Calif., compound to ...

Tourists to the Volunteer State offer many reasons for coming to Tennessee, but members of the Lionel Collectors Club of America (LCCA) will visit the Chattanooga area for fun with actual and model ...

"There are no bad train days." That's how collector Craig Chidester feels when he escapes down to his basement and spends time with his electric trains. The 56-year-old Westmont resident is an avid ...

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC• Train layout, Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel lobby Wednesday, July 17, through Friday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.• Train Show (sale), Track 29 BuildingTrading hall to contain 150 ...

The Lionel Train Company is based in Concord near Charlotte and it was the site of the big annual gathering of the Train Collectors Club of America from July 24 to July 29. The Lionel Train Company is ...

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 ...

DANVERS — The response to Wednesday’s rail disaster was amazingly swift. The oil tanker car had not only jumped the track, it lay on its side seeming to leak the noxious contents all over. Railroad ...

Millionaire real estate developer Richard P. Kughn liked Lionel electric trains so much he bought the company. His decision, however, was not impetuous. Kughn first spent nearly a half century ...

Charleston native Mike West has 1,000 square feet devoted to toy trains in his home. On top of that, his wife, Jo Ann, once an interior designer, has carefully placed various trains throughout the ...