For years, many families have a model train display as part of the Christmas season’s decorations. Do you have fond memories of one, or do you still set up a display? My memory of a train display ...

Smiles come easy to the leadership of the Hawkeye Model Railroad Club these days. That’s because the group of local die-hard train lovers will soon move into their own new 3,200-square-foot building ...

You’d probably expect caskets to be in the basement of a typical funeral home — but not this one. Hidden beneath a trap door sits an expansive model railroad th ...

Certain hobbies come in clusters. It isn’t uncommon to see, for example, ham radio operators that are private pilots. Programmers who are musicians. Electronics people who build model trains. This ...

Melvyn Rasel dedicated countless hours and money over four decades to create an homage to his hometown, building small plastic replicas of Irwin landmarks from his childhood in the 1950s as part of an ...

There are about nine model train clubs on Long Island, but apparently only the West Island Model Railroad Club in Hicksville allows visitors to run its trains at open houses. And at this year’s ...

Danica Luehr and Brec Gibson stand beside the model train display they helped create at the Northwest Montana History Museum in Kalispell on Tuesday, April 15. Luehr hand-painted each building on the ...

As the locomotive rolled past a gritty urban scene, engineer Lavon Stauffer smiled. “Now watch this,” he said. He increased the throttle, blew the airhorn and rang the locomotive’s bell ... all from ...

At Maker Faire this weekend. tucked in between a building full of homegrown foodstuffs and a rock polishing booth is the Bay Area Garden Railway Society (BAGRS). They’re running a few live steam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, Tom Crosthwait, John Lowrance and Alan Vincent with the San Antonio Model Railroad Association at the Bob Clarke Rail ...