Line, Menards, and other 3-rail O gauge trains? Do you like big trains but have a small budget? This is the channel for you!

For some people, the aroma of Christmas is freshly baked cookies or a newly cut pine. For me, it’s the oily burn of my 71-year-old Lionel sparking across equally ancient tracks. The train is one of ...

Line, Menards, and other 3-rail O gauge trains? Do you like big trains but have a small budget? This is the channel for you!

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The model train running around the Christmas tree, watched by happy pyjama-clad children out of a Norman Rockwell illustration, is a ...

Jeff Haertlein wandered around the La Crosse Center on Saturday with a pile of papers, listing the parts he needed to repair one of his first-ever model trains. When one of his oldest engines began to ...

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 ...

For many baby boomers, and some younger folks as well, the December holidays are synonymous with model trains. Many in the postwar generation grew up with Lionel or American Flyer rolling stock ...

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 ...

Open the door and it is like a child’s dream come true. Row upon row of colorful model trains line the walls and the four tracks carry passenger and freight trains whirring and clacking around the ...

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 ...