The event will feature 50 exhibitors from across the country, 250 tables of trains for sale, operating model train displays, memorabilia, toys, demonstrations and other train-related ware.

But children had special reason to love trains. “Trains brought everything from visiting relatives to all the goods in town,” says Tony Cook, editor of Model Railroad News.

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“Setting up a train around the tree is the spark for someone to take those trains off the carpet and start building a model railroad,” Vondrak says. “I got my start in the hobby from a gift ...