Dr. David J. Gillis, a retired Baltimore urologist and nationally known expert and collector of American Flyer model electric trains, died of cancer Oct. 2 at his Lutherville home. He was 70. Dr.

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 ...

I collect S gauge Gilbert American Flyer, as it’s the scale and brand with which I entered the model railroading hobby. I have always enjoyed S gauge, as the size is nice and Gilbert American Flyer ...

“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 ...

The image generates cozy and nostalgic thoughts: a miniature train chugging among snow-covered houses underneath a Christmas tree. Perhaps you don’t have a model train layout as part of your holiday ...

For those who have been lamenting the closure of Shartlesville’s Roadside America two years ago and need their holiday train fix, the “Nostalgic Christmas Trains” exhibit at the Reading Railroad ...

WEBVTT T BACK INTO THE GAME. IT I TRAINS AND MORE TRAINS IN MALDIN, ATTRACTING TRAIN LOVERS OF ALL AGES. JO LYON SAYS IT'S FREE OLD-SCHOOL FUN. JOHN: IT IS A ROOM FULL 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 ...