Many people remember a childhood with an electric train set. Perhaps it was an HO-scale layout on a sheet of plywood in the basement or a brand-new Lionel set first discovered under the Christmas tree ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Big little trains might sound like an oxymoron, but you’re not likely to find these oversized models running around under your Christmas tree. These bigger rolling stock took to the ...