By 1997, word of his craftsmanship had reached local retailers, who in turn asked that he make the wooden trains on a professional basis.

"A boy must have lived here," said Andy, picking up a broken wooden train from a patch of weeds.

It was originally steam-powered with two wooden trains serving parallel tracks.

My father tried making me a wooden train, but that didn't satisfy me, as I wanted something that worked.

The gorilla gets furious and goes after Bimbo, who then escapes on a wooden train.

From the front, it looks like a textured wall that time forgot - once inside, you could be in the corridor of a completely wooden train.

He too started a line of wooden trains in 1968 to the same gauge, using bright colors in his train designs.

By 2007 they had started their own line of wooden trains, expanding it in 2008.

Offers a line of wooden trains based upon North American prototypes.

They found space for a big promotion for a catalog that features classic wooden trains and blocks.