Famous model train exhibit will debut at Railroad Museum of LI

A historic Lionel model train exhibit will be unveiled April 9 at the Railroad Museum of Long Island’s Riverhead location.

The 7,000-pound train layout sat for nearly two decades at the Chesterfield, Mich. visitor’s center of Lionel, one of the world’s largest model train manufacturing companies.

The display attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world, until the center closed in 2008.

The display is designed after a layout built in 1949 for the Lionel’s headquarters on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, where train lovers flocked for decades.

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