Dick Christianson, the founding editor of Classic Toy Trains and the consummate cheerleader for Lionel trains of the postwar era, was recently asked about his top locomotive. He’s owned several great ...

A model train featured in the Holiday Train Show. Miniature models of American steam engines, late 1800s streetcars, and ...

Model steam engines have intrigued hackers and makers for over 100 years. Many of us have seen old steam engine models up for sale at garage sales and various internet auction sites. The problem ...

Though we consider model railroading a hobby, it’s also an investment. Consider the prices of model trains today. Depending ...

The Choo Choo Barn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, includes over 170 animations on its 1,700-square-foot layout with 22 operating ...

Volunteers from the Gladstone Michigan Soo Line 730 Steam Engine Authority and the Siblings of the Soo Line lit the train up ...

Classic Toy Trains Senior Editor Roger Carp takes another look at Lionel catalog volume 1 for 2024 and describes more items ...

Over the next few years, this engine was improved to provide more power, with a 12 hp model appearing in ... debuting the first steam-powered train in 1804. It had the ability to haul ten tons ...

When your steam engine build requires multiple microscopes, including those of the scanning electron variety, you know you’re building something really, really tiny. All of the usual tiny ...

And in its latest and most princely adaptation—the locomotive—it moves long trains of elegant ... name in connection with the steam engine. A small working model of what was called Newcomens ...

Luther R. Taught, of Macon, Georgia, has invented a very ingenious and original improvement for regulating the speed of steam engines, by cutting off the steam in the steam box when it exceeds the ...