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 ...

SIGOURNEY - I should have brought binoculars. That's the only way to see from one end of Lyle Dumont's new model railroad to the other. It's 90 feet long, nearly a third of a football field. "This IS ...

"My plan is to never finish, and I'm right on schedule," joked Bob Ford about the HO-Scale model train layout he's building in the basement of his home in The Waterfront in Franklin County. Ford does ...

It’s the time of year for gift giving (and gift getting). For some of us, Christmas recalls a time when a tiny electric train ran around the tree on a bumpy carpet, never quite as beautiful as it was ...

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 ...

MANSFIELD, Texas -- A train and three rail cars sit in the tiny shadow of a water tower in Don Hughes' workshop, causing him to smile. "That was the train that started it all," he said, "the train on ...

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 ...

TROY - The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout, which inspired generations of model train builders across the world and fueled the hobby's red-hot popularity ...

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 ...