I found this manuscript from the late John Grams in our manuscript files. There was no date on the envelope but it’s likely ...

Lionel's model trains have been chugging through bedrooms and around coffee tables for the past 113 years. But now, they're getting a digital makeover.

Lionel trains turns 125, celebrating more than a century of holiday magic. From historic models to smartphone-controlled locomotives, these iconic toy trains continue to captivate kids and ...

In 1969, Lionel licensed its train manufacturing to breakfast-cereal conglomerate General Mills. Production was shifted to Michigan and, in one ill-fated move, to Mexico.

Controlling Model Trains From Your iPad. In moving into the digital realm, Lionel has also entered the open source realm. In January, the company opened up its layout protocols to allow train sets ...

Lionel trains turns 125, celebrating more than a century of holiday magic. From historic models to smartphone-controlled locomotives, these iconic toy trains continue to captivate kids and ...

This month Lionel Trains becomes 100 years old, the only American toy company that has lasted for a full century. To celebrate the feat of surviving two world wars, the Great Depression, fads and ...

By 1902, Lionel was primarily a toy train manufacturer. A plant was built in Hillside in 1929 exclusively to manufacture toy trains; business grew so much that the factory was expanded in 1940 ...

Although Lionel has been in the model train business for 113 years, the Canfield facility only works on trains made from the 1990s on. That's when the products started having complex electronics, ...

Lionel trains turns 125, celebrating more than a century of holiday magic. From historic models to smartphone-controlled locomotives, these iconic toy trains continue to captivate kids and ...