This video features a restored 1218 American Flyer locomotive in 0 gauge, originally in poor condition with significant rust.

Tearing model trains apart is a big element of what Hull's team does here. That's because, he told me, the major source of the parts they use to fix the thousands of locomotives, freight and ...

Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them th… ...

BUTTE, Mont. – Butte is embracing its history with a restoration project centered around a significant local relic.

It served as a parts locomotive for the American Freedom Train during the nation’s bicentennial celebration in 1975-76. It was once owned by Richard P. Kughn, former CEO of Lionel Trains Inc.

He said some serious flaws in the diesel engine (GE 7FDL) of the latest model of the US-origin electric locomotive, AGE-30, had added to railways woes as out of the 30 such locomotives, only eight ...

Here’s how you come aboard. Large Scale Model Railroaders from across the region are at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield for the Northeast Large Scale Train Show.