Jul 26, 2025 Jul 26, 2025 Updated Aug 23, 2025 Welcome back to Porky’s Hobby Corner. I had the recent opportunity to attend the Lionel Operating Train Society’s annual national model train convention ...

Two-year-old Matteo Volpi’s eyes sparkled as he looked at a Lionel Train setup at the Hilton Hotel on Saturday. As Thomas the Tank Engine passed in front of him on a miniature train track, Volpi ...

As soon as one enters the Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers’ (NLOE) train-a-palooza, the rumbling begins. Get ready to be immersed into an actual village. There are people. Houses. Cars. Oil ...

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! Novices are welcome here! I received my first Lionel set when I was two ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A memorial service is planned for Saturday for Richard ...

Len Carparelli knew The Lionel Story very well. This talented artist, who made a career from restoring trains, primarily locomotives, built by Lionel during the post-World War II era of production, ...

CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - After chugging along for more than a century, Lionel LLC, the venerable maker of model trains, is struggling to stay on track following a nearly $41 million judgment ...

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 ...

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 ...