Photos: Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
It's National Train Day May 10. We present trains old and new, full-sized and toy-sized to take you back to your childhood.
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Railroad workers are shown in front of a locomotive, date and location unknown. (AP Photo)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Charlie LaPorte, Wednesday November 5, 2003, in Tucson, Arizona at his home as he plays around with his large collection of trains. He's been a collector for decades.
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
A close-up of one of Charlie LaPorte's model-railroad cars shows the silhouettes of passengers in the windows of the car.
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Marie Bowman and her great grandchildren Chris Gloyd, 9 (center) and Steven Gloyd, 11 (right), of Troutdale, Ore., marvel at the minature drive in movie theater playing "The Silver Streak," Saturday July 15, 2006 at Hundred Palms of Tucson.
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Residents of Hundred Palms of Tucson look at the 30 foot by 8 foot model train display, Saturday July 15, 2006 at in the activity room of the assisted living home in Tucson, Ariz.
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Gadsden-Pacific Division toy train museum Tour Guide Ray Mason Sr., leads tour's in the 6,000 sq ft building which houses over 200 scale miles of train track, Wednesday January 7, 2004 in Tucson, Ariz.
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Southern Pacific Engine 1673 which has a new house at the train depot, Friday July 19, 2002 in Tucson, Ariz.
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
As whistles blow and bells ring, Aiden Rowe, 4, gets an up-close look at one of the model trains running on the O-Gauge track during the final open house before the summer closure at the Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum in Tucson, Ariz., Sunday June 27, 2010.
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
The "William Crooks," Pioneer Railroad Locomotive in America's Northwest, comes back to where it was built 78 years ago and receives a welcome from several thousand people in Paterson, N.J. on March 27, 1939. The old engine came from St. Paul, Minn., under its own power, enroute to the New York's World's Fair of 1939. (AP Photo)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
The "Thatcher Perkins," built in 1863 for the Baltimore and Ohio R.R, is shown in Chicago on July 12, 1948. A four-six-0, the locomotive was one of the first coal burners and is being exhibited at the Chicago Railroad Fair. (AP Photo)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
The "William Crooks," a wood-burning locomotive built in 1861 by Smith and Jackson Builders in Paterson, N.J., is shown in Chicago on July 15, 1948. The four-four-0 engine was operated in the first division of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad and was designed by railroaders to indicate the number of wheels under the locomotive. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Railroad officials and employees celebrate the completion of the first railroad transcontinental link in Prementory, Utah on May 10, 1869. The Union Pacific's Locomotive No. 119, right, and Central Pacific's Jupiter edged forward over the golden spike that marked the joining of the nation by rail. (AP Photo/Union Pacific/Andrew Russell)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Two federal railroad commissioners on an inspection trip sit on the pilot of this wood-burning locomotive over newly built sections of the Central Pacific Railroad in Promonotory, Utah on May 10, 1869. The railroad, then being built eastward across Nevada, was to meet the westward building Union Pacific. (AP Photo)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Toy trains which have gone around many Christmas trees in the past are coming around again this year. These trains were photographed Dec. 12, 1989 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/George Widman)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
This is one of the Union Pacific Railroad's new Challenger Streamliner trains which went into service between Chicago and Los Angeles, seen Jan. 28, 1954. Diesel-powered and streamlined, the new Challengers cut about 20 hours and 30 minutes from the running time of the old Challengers which were discontinued during World War II. (AP Photo)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
An illustration of old time railroads is shown in an undated photo. (AP Photo)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Jim Spirerling, left, and Bob Lunoe fit an awning top to stage-type railroad coaches, July 15, 1948 which were built for the Atlantic, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1832. Equipped with leather braces for springs, the coaches were the first luxury passenger transportation afforded railroad travelers in the United States. They are shown on the grouns of the railroad fair in Chicago opening on july 20. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)
Old, new and toy trains for National Train Day
Dave Bacon plays with his model train landscape in his garage in Kingman, Ariz. on Friday, Nov. 14, 2008. It's by far the most ambitious model layout Bacon has ever designed, with hundreds of tiny hand-painted model humans and animals going about their daily lives amid the miniature houses and businesses. (AP Photo/Kingman Daily Miner, JC Amberlyn)