A 20-year-old Columbia-based company has accused the world’s largest model train producer of using stolen designs to develop and sell model steam engines. In a lawsuit filed this month in U.S.

The Oakton Train Yard is the grand, lifelong project of Evanston resident David Homer, whose fascination with model ...

With its loose shingles and rusted sides, the listing water tank looks as timeworn as the model steam engine that chugs around the 12-foot-by-24-foot display. But it was brand-new only recently. Ken ...

Which Lionel train sets are best? Lionel has been making trains for kids, adults and model railroading hobbyists for more than 120 years. Ever since the first kid played with Lionel’s first toy train ...

Built by the American Locomotive Co. in March 1913, No. 1003 and its Class L-1 2-8-2 sisters served the Minneapolis, St. Paul ...

CANFIELD, Ohio -- Lionel is one of the best-known model train makers in the world. It has fans (and customers) just about everywhere, and its products can sell for hundreds of dollars. In the last 113 ...

For Terry Bowie, toy trains always went with Christmas. As a kid in the '50s, Bowie would stand for hours outside Atlanta department store windows, mesmerized by the tiny Lionel engines zipping around ...