For many people, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a toy train set, the whir of the wheels on the tracks, the lights and whistles and steam. And then when the new year rolls around, and the ...

A caboose brings up the rear of a train. (Photo by Art Smith) A group of historical amusement park steam engines continue to work building up steam and doing what they were designed to do, haul people ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. – Bob Butler doesn’t appear a bit baffled by the knobs and levers and gauges before him, and he isn’t even breaking a sweat, despite the heat radiating from the boiler a foot or two ...

As a little boy in Maryland, Don Mathis couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw a miniature steam engine on a model train that blew actual steam. Watching that engine huff and puff made a lasting ...

WINSTED — I recently read a story of a hobby shop in Winsted that was closing its doors. Sadly, this is not an uncommon event in the hobby shop business these days. Although that particular closing ...

John Lasseter is talking about trains; and for the entire conversation, he sounds like a kid again. The artistic catalyst for Pixar Animation Studio, who directed “Toy Story” and “Cars” and is now the ...