Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or as a ...

It’s train week at Somerset Academy of Las Vegas, 7038 Sky Pointe Drive. Second-graders in their pajamas talk excitedly among themselves outside one of the classrooms of their public charter school ...

WYOMING -- Jerry Frye never had model trains as a child. Now he has thousands. "I've always been interested in trains, but my parents never bought me one," said Frye, who owns Hobby Recycling at 2313 ...

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 ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — In Pinellas Park, there's an age-old business that not only survived the pandemic but grew stronger because of it. Like the real-life steel titans, their models are made to ...

Fall Train Show Chairman Tom Ratkovich poses in front of the Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s logo sign. Ratkovich will be serving as chairman for the final time on Saturday. (Photo by Mark Suek) ...

Richard Harland Jr.’s model train set and environs represent 50 years of collecting and 10 years of work. “The time and energy I put into this is priceless,” the Champlain Street man said. The train ...

When John Wallis got a Lionel train set for Christmas in 1946, the 5-year-old was immediately hooked. He loved the movement and the mechanics of it. Wallis, 75, still plays with trains. His childhood ...

The 2011 Great Train Expo was held at the Expo center in Portland. Here, Ed Ives, Issaquah WA gets a train ready to roll at the O Gauge Hi-Railers Model train club display. The Hi-Railers are from the ...

There is a whirring hum punctuated by clicks as the model trains make their way around the oval track. They pass through the tunnel, over the bridge and through the buildings that suggest a country ...