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.

Some of us circled the toys and left the catalog open to strategic pages for all to see. Or tore out pages and added them to ...

The iconic American toy train company is celebrating its ... both in person and mail order. KEN BIANCO SR: Lionel makes a whole catalog almost of Christmas items - Christmas sets, Christmas ...

The memories of poring over catalogs from Sears-Roebuck ... world — each Christmas everyone had to have that toy. From Lionel Trains to Barbie, Nintendo and Star Wars toys, there have always ...

Lionel's perfect postwar train set features a classic steam engine ... The set will not duplicate any set Lionel showed or listed in a catalog. Lionel must have cataloged the engine during the ...

Lionel was touting the new “Chugger” sound mechanism in its locomotives and still cataloging the landmark Nos. 396E Blue Comet and 411E State passenger sets. On the back page of the consumer catalog, ...

The clerks there were kind enough to distribute free Lionel train catalogs. And what did it cost to dream? I deduced he made his way to French’s on his way to greeting his own father ...

Maybe ten days before Christmas, my father closed off access to the cellar playroom his six children normally owned and occupied. It was an open secret: He was building the Christmas garden, that ...

The original version of the following piece appeared in the Salem News way back in 2004. The response created back then and each and every year is truly appreciated. It is presented having undergone a ...

Quad City DJs’ “C’Mon N’ Ride It (The Train)” and Lionel Richie’s “Say You, Say Me.” Mash-ups and original tunes drive the Skivvies catalog, but performing in their underwear ...