Along with fir trees wrapped in strings of red and candy canes stuffed in long red stockings, toy trains are timeless images associated with Christmas. Earlier this year, a store specializing in those ...

The idea of a custom run product - a manufacturer creating a special item for a retailer not sold in its catalog - is nothing new. Custom toy train products have existed for more than 100 years.

Sets are the foundation of the toy train hobby, and they have been for more than a century. The earliest manufacturers of toy trains in Europe and the United States developed sets as the best ...