In January, she launched Tiny Track Toys, a small business that specializes in miniature replicas of TriMet vehicles. The ...

Ed Gibson, son of the late train hobbyist and toy store owner Thomas E. Gibson, organizes trains in a warehouse where his father stored his collectibles Tuesday. The family of Thomas Gibson, who died ...

If we are fortunate enough to have good genes, avoid fatal accidents, and escape catastrophic illness, it will come to all of us: old age. Model railroaders with huge layouts face a unique set of ...

WATSONTOWN — When he was 3 years old, Bill McCollin, of Watsontown, was given his first Lionel train set, complete with an engine, track and transformer. For Christmas that year, his dad purchased the ...

Maybe it was taking the Broadway IRT subway line to East Flatbush that inspired Brooklyn-born Jerry Greene to spend five decades amassing the world’s greatest — and best-kept secret — collection of ...

As a boy, Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson played with electric trains. As a man, Wilkinson, a 1950 graduate of Yale College, still plays with electric trains. Wilkinson presides over an unparalleled ...

Looking to explore the best toy spots in town? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top toy establishments in Sacramento, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of ...

They came pushing metal grocery carts filled with worn cardboard boxes and large paper shopping bags, unearthed from basements and the backs of closets. From them they revealed Lionel trains, delicate ...