For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...
TRADITION. REPOER:RT HISTORIANS SAY MODEL TRAINS GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1891 THEY’RE STILL POPULAR 130 YEARS LATER. THIS ONE IS THE MINIATURE RAILROAD & VILLAGE AT THE CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER AND IT ...
Mike Sarna is the curator of the Pioneer Zephyr exhibit, which displays a restored streamliner train at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. He describes what makes these trains so special.