More than a century after they were invented, toy trains remain popular Christmas toys. Showing a Lionel train set in motion with smoke and train sounds at the Pittston Train Shop, owner John Merlino ...

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 ...

Minter's Train Shop has been an important Lubbock fixture to Jerry Hoover for most of his life. He remembers how much he loved to go there when he was in elementary school, and now, at the age of 63, ...