Dr. David J. Gillis, a retired Baltimore urologist and nationally known expert and collector of American Flyer model electric trains, died of cancer Oct. 2 at his Lutherville home. He was 70. Dr.

Aweek ago regret was expressed in this space over the demise in the 1960s of the A.C. Gilbert Co. and the American Flyer model trains it manufactured, trains that ran on S-gauge track and were ...

Q — I am trying to determine the value of an American Flyer circus train. The train is completely original. The engine is No. 357. I have searched the Internet, contacted Lionel, and purchased train ...

An American Flyer model train set was reported taken from the trunk of a car at the Du Page County Fairgrounds Sunday. Thomas E. David of Joliet told police that the set, a Southern Pacific, was ...

Bill Brown has a tiny indentation near the nail of his right index finger. It’s not very noticeable, but Brown won’t ever forget it’s there. It’s the indelible stamp of the plug-in 110-volt motor that ...

“The smoke from steam engines have a smell — it's like a cedar smell — and it almost feels like Christmas,” he said, recalling when he was a 4-year-old child living in New York City and his ...

HAMDEN >> The model trains at the Eli Whitney Museum are mobile relics of a time long gone, but they work as well as anything built this decade. With the flipping of some switches and the pushing of ...