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For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

As kids for generations have done, Landon Tennant looks longingly at a streamlined Lionel Santa Fe engine as it chugs around a tiny display with houses, mountains and bridges at TrainLand, a hobby ...

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SCRANTON, Pa. — Organizers with the Lionel Collectors Club of America are setting up model railroads inside the Hilton in downtown Scranton. They're getting ready for the 55th annual Lionel Collectors ...