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LUNDEN: For its birthday bash, Lionel is putting out lots of new trains, including a "Star Wars"-themed set. For NPR News, I'm Jeff Lunden in Lynbrook, Long Island.

Lionel's No. 773 4-6-4 Hudson steam engine and tender from 1950 look fantastic on the O gauge layout built by Walt Urban Jr. (featured in the September 2023 issue of Classic Toy Trains ).

And it's spectacular." The company began making and selling toy trains in 1900, a time when electricity in homes was new and not yet widespread. Lionel CEO Howard Hitchcock says a young man saw ...

“Instead of one group of people looking for Lionel trains for any reason, there are now operators buying new trains of different brands with all the bells and whistles as well as collectors ...

Lionel revives its classic Pennsylvania RR S2 Steam Turbine in this article from Classic Toy Trains and Roger Carp.

It’s like your Christmas tree when you add new ornaments. In that way, trains always got tied to the holiday.” Model train manufacturers took early notice. “Once Lionel and other companies ...

during a November open house at the group’s clubhouse in New Lenox. It’s not all play, however. The organization has worked with Lionel on train design and mechanics, including in 2005 when ...