How Lionel is moving the business of model trains into the 21st century.

Lionel has been making and selling model trains since 1900, and recently the company decided to do something different to rejuvenate the brand — release an iPad game.

Model trains are a large part of the overall hobby industry, and Lionel remains best known for its enduring line of trains. Other model train manufacturers: Athearn Atlas Bachmann Kato Hornsby ...

Which Lionel train sets are best? Lionel has been making trains for kids, adults and model railroading hobbyists for more than 120 years. Ever since the first kid played with Lionel’s first toy ...

Model-train fans gather in DenverJanelle Salazar, her sons Ezekial, top, and Joseph, bottom, and her nephew Nicholas Delauro look at the Lionel model trains at the Denver Marriott Tech Center ...

Near the fireplace of the Patty Turner Center is a 6-foot by 12-foot train table with various Lionel model trains powering around a scenic model town.

A 13-foot tall mountain in the background overlooks one section of the new 40-by-90 foot Lionel model train layout at Dumont Museum south of Sigourney. Photo was taken Friday, Nov. 30, 2012.

The Easy-Bake Oven and Lionel model trains joined Mr. Potato Head, the Frisbee and 32 other classic but watt-free toys Thursday in the Strong-National Museum of Play's eight-year-old hall of fame.

Legendary model train maker Lionel LLC has emerged from bankruptcy protection, the company's Web site and court documents show.

Marx was a competing model train manufacturer. Soon to follow was a gift of a Lionel O Gauge Diesel Locomotive set. My dad built a 4-foot-by-6-foot layout table to run my trains on, which I still ...