GUEST: This is a train set that was my dad's. APPRAISER: Uh-huh. GUEST: It was given to him on his first Christmas in December 1930. Obviously, he didn't get to play with it that year, but ...

Appraisal: Lionel Girls Train Set, ca. 1957, from Minneapolis Hour 1. Watch Noel Barrett's appraisal of a Lionel girls train set, ca. 1957.

The nation’s two largest makers of toy trains are nearing a conclusion to a 7-year-old, multimillion-dollar lawsuit. Columbia-based MTH Electric Trains had sued Lionel, a century-old brand ...

No one can say with certainty when the first Lionel model train was set up to chug around a Christmas tree and surprise children on Christmas morning, but it’s a safe bet that the idea and the ...