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 ...

Dieter’s Train Town was designed and built inside a 4,000-square-foot warehouse in Virginia Beach by Dieter Steinhoff and friends during the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s still a work in progress.

New themes and another layout are part of this year's model train day at Moore Museum, says a volunteer organizer. Tom Walter runs a model train on a layout recognizing the Royal Canadian Air Force's ...

S-scale modeler Larry Robertson chats with a visitor as his freight train pauses on the tracks. Note the trailer-on-flatcar loads, an activity of progressive railroads starting in the 1950s. Photos: ...

There’s just something about miniature worlds — they’re just so relaxing to look at and ponder. Think you don’t have ample room for a model train layout at your place? You may not be thinking small ...

Trains.com is proud to introduce Trains.com Courses™, a new online learning platform of step-by-step video tutorials designed to provide a clear, reliable path to a great model railroad. Expert ...

Growing up in the 1950s in Duncan, Okla., south and west of Oklahoma City, Keith Johnson watched the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway — the Rock Island Line — pass through town. The Rock ...

This story is part of Finding Your People, a series celebrating the Bay Area’s meetups and subcultures that bring people together IRL in an increasingly online world. Up a steep flight of stairs off ...

A Palos Park man’s hobby is helping to support art in the South Suburbs, lending credence to the old adage, art begets art. While model trains are largely considered a hobby, Wes Sanders elevates it ...