Operation Toy Train, organizer of special holiday trains across the U.S. to benefit the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for ...

Founded in 1900, Lionel Trains is the oldest model train company in America. Thomas has been painting nostalgic scenes of, and on, the toy trains' boxcars since 1991 — and receiving royalties.

That was how Mark Twain had described the toy train in 1896. More than a century later, Twain’s description along with illustrations of his exploits in the Darjeeling hills found place at a weeklong ...