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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 ...

The call of the railroad hits some people hard, harkening back to a time when trains were the veins and arteries of the land, with large steam engines pulling railroad cars, moving people and freight ...