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 ...

Matthew Hornby peered over the edge of a model train layout, watching his grandfather, Duncan, operate a locomotive as it passed cars parked on the side of the road and disappeared into a tunnel. At ...

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 ...

Pieces of the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society’s 4,000-square-foot model train layout are ready to be taken away by volunteers working with the National Model Railroad Association’s northeast region ...

Youngstown Model Railroad Association officer Bruce Silvernail handles the switching operations at one of the large yards on the HO layout. The YMRA HO layout will appear in the national magazine, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With its loose shingles and rusted sides, the listing water tank looks as timeworn as the model steam engine that chugs around the 12-foot-by-24-foot display ...

The 37th annual Swap Meet and Train Show in Eugene, Oregon, continues to draw multi-generational interest and emphasizes keeping youth engaged in model railroading.

Here are some numbers that help explain why jaws drop at the first sight of the model-train set that tech entrepreneur Peter Hambling is having built in the basement of his Medina family home: • The ...

Topeka and trains have a long history together. Rail lines that intersect the town today date back to 1859 when Cyrus K. Holliday, one of Topeka's founders, wrote the charter for the creation of the ...