Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads. For me, I can honestly say that my N scale Naugatuck Valley RR started with ...

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 ...

BRANDON, Wis. (WBAY) - Watching trains go by as a young boy inspired a life-long hobby for a Fond du Lac County man. Later in life, he spent nearly four decades creating a massive model train layout.

Love affairs with trains typically begin like this: A tyke watching in awe as a Lionel train set choo choos around a Christmas tree. Fast forward some number of decades, and you have John Campbell, ...

If we are fortunate enough to have good genes, avoid fatal accidents, and escape catastrophic illness, it will come to all of us: old age. Model railroaders with huge layouts face a unique set of ...

STAUNTON — Miniature trains and small-scaled landscaped settings have been packed up and distributed throughout the many members of the Augusta County Railroad Museum. The museum lost its location ...

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 ...