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 ...

“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 ...

Track and switches: American Models (diameters range from 42 up to 60 inches) Motive power: American Models, Gilbert American Flyer, S-Helper Service Rolling stock: American Models, Gilbert American ...

DANVILLE -- The cover of a national magazine features the home railroad display of a Montour County man this month. The magazine, S Gaugian, whose subscribers are owners of American Flyer model trains ...

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 ...