Interest in model trains has varied over decades, even during Christmas. Since the 1950s, television, slot cars, plastic models and other diversions have diluted the attraction of model trains.

Visitors pack the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, during the season, nearly 10,000 each year. "Trains were always affiliated with Christmas," said ...

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The model trains are running on Fridays from 6-9 p.m., Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays from 12-5 p.m. through the end of the year. Entrance is free.

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VAN ALSTYNE, Texas (KTEN) — For nearly three decades, the sound of model trains running under the twinkling lights of the Christmas tree was a beloved tradition for the Thompson ...

Model trains remind many people of Christmas as a child and for one local organization, that nostalgia lasts year-round. The Arizona Big Trains Operators will hold its annual Christmas Open House ...

Conductor Craig Coble works the controls on the one of many Christmas toy train displays by The Train Guys at the Elizabethtown Public Library in Elizabethtown Friday Dec. 9, 2022.

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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) — The whistling sound and twinkling lights of a model train have filled the DeMent family’s Mount Pleasant home each holiday season for decades. “My da… ...

But that began to change in the 1930s when model railroading became a year-round hobby. By the 1970s, Klein’s had jettisoned their hardware operation in favor of model trains and other supplies.

Richard Johnston of Kutztown, a volunteer at the museum, takes care of the American Flyer model train exhibit at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum, 500 S. Third St., Hamburg.