GUEST: This is a train set that was my dad's. APPRAISER: Uh-huh. GUEST: It was given to him on his first Christmas in December 1930. Obviously, he didn't get to play with it that year, but ...

At the center of the set is Cranberry Lake ... He soon was building models using Lionel-brand trains. In 2003, with his six kids grown and out of the house, Scully and his second wife, Regina ...

His little Lionel set went from closet-sized to filling up our 3,000-square-foot basement.” He began building the train set of his childhood dreams in 2002, after the Scullys finished building ...

No one can say with certainty when the first Lionel model train was set up to chug around a Christmas tree and surprise children on Christmas morning, but it’s a safe bet that the idea and the ...