The Polar Express (2004). I am one of the guilty ones who cries over this movie on the couch every year. Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg, this moving film is about a train that brings the ...

A Lionel toy train around the Christmas tree continues to be a fixture of holiday tradition in some families. The iconic American company is about to roll into its 125th anniversary.

No one knows precisely when the train custom started, but it has been a part of Christmas in the U.S. since the early 1900s, rooted in nostalgia and passed down from one generation to the next.