Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's model train layout of the fictional New England, Berkshire & Western Railroad has been ...

John: Our American Flyer S Gauge layout is the largest in the world at over 1,700 square feet. The oldest piece that we have in the museum is from 1918. It’s made by Lionel and it still runs. Tell me ...

MADISON — Dr. Alan Friedler loves spending countless hours perfecting his model train layout. And this is a passion he never outgrew from when he was a kid. An onlooker might feel like a kid again ...

When the Museum of Science and Industry unveils its model railroad exhibit this fall, Chicagoans will be able to look down on a miniature Loop, complete with operating elevated trains clattering over ...

The business park exterior of the Twin City Model Railroad Museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota is fairly unremarkable. But once inside, visitors of all ages are in for a magical, immersive experience—the ...

Deep in Frisco’s Discovery Center, a man’s life is laid out in model train tracks in a 3,000-square-foot room. When no one is around, the room is quiet and dark. As the project nears completion, the ...

When designing their layouts, many model railroaders gravitate towards the 1960s. It’s easy to understand why - to many in the hobby, the 1960s represents one of the most dynamic decades in American ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Grant Taylor, 18, of Boardman, busily connects two cars on the model train layout he designed that was part of the show. CANFIELD — Grant Taylor isn’t hesitant about ...

It looked like it could have been *** page out of the history books for the old Union Station. Inside, onlookers young and old watched and waited for the train around the bend. But the trains here ...