While exploring the brand-new 252-page full-color catalog as legwork for developing the upcoming edition of Greenberg's Pocket Price Guide to Lionel Trains ... from the pre-World War II era.

Pre-war items brought premiums and post-war items ... Selling to collectors is quite easy because most items in train sets are numbered. For example, Lionel No. 2402 is a Pullman car. We recently ...

The trade-secret fight between Columbia’s MTH Electric Trains, formerly known as Mike’s Train House Inc., and suburban Detroit model-train icon Lionel LLC ... and buys a car ready to go.

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 ...