Lionel's perfect postwar train set features a classic steam engine and ... He used this mighty pair to pull a quartet of near-scale boxcars and a No. 6017 Boston & Maine SP-type caboose.

He points towards the model trains. "This layout here has three different Lionel train sets on it running and kids ... even though his Queens, N.Y. apartment is too small for a permanent layout.

The other Christmas sets do very well, too, but Polar Express is number one - and it has been for the last 20 years." Jack Martinek has been collecting for over fifty years, even though his Queens, ...