Classic Toy Trains new products for December 2024, including items from METCA, MTH, Ron's Books, shop.trains.com, and more.

As editor, he observed virtually every locomotive Lionel cataloged ... I ended up with the set in 1950 because some other youngster in Eau Claire, Wis., got two trains for Christmas in 1949.

As a young boy, I loved trains. My parents bought me a Lionel toy set one year for Christmas. Mine was a freight train pulled by a steam locomotive, not the coveted modern passenger set featuring the ...