HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity ...

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Chris Jerson, 14, sets a locomotive on the tracks and watches as the model HO-scale engine backs into the round house for “servicing.” As switchman, his job is to apply the hand brakes and throw the ...

Concealed in the basement of a downtown Wauconda coffee shop is something that would amaze any child, or adult for that matter — a complete landscaped small-gauge train layout, with familiar sites and ...

There are about nine model train clubs on Long Island, but apparently only the West Island Model Railroad Club in Hicksville allows visitors to run its trains at open houses. And at this year’s ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

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 ...

ST. JAMES — Laurence Lau sounds an electronic whistle as children study a fictionalized version of an urban train interchange. The gesture causes him to smile. He sports a traditional railroad ...