The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society’s famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout was broken up again, this time for good.

Ray Shelton is a retired Nassau County Police officer, but he has been working on the railroad for 40 years. Shelton’s Hicksville backyard is landscaped with bushes like a large, blooming prickly pear ...

Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or as a treasured birthday present. As the years went on, most of those trains were ...

Nobody looks bored at a model train show. Some people stare intently at crisscrossing objects in motion. Others build or fix things with the analytical skills of an engineer. Still others explain the ...

Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree. The allure of model trains followed the growth of ...

A spontaneous trip to the San Diego Model Railroad Museum turned into a wish come true for a boy named Beau, a 10-year-old train lover and Make-A-Wish kid. "Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of ...

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