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 ...

The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout is breaking up again, this time for good.

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. (WHTM) — The Masonic Village & Elizabethtown Model Railroad Club (MV&E Model Rail Road Club) holds monthly open houses to show off their detailed, life-like model railroad tracks.

Peer through the window of a storefront in Avondale Plaza in Plain Township and you might believe you’re peeking back through time at an old-time department store holiday window display. Nothing says ...

IN MCKEESPORT. THE MCKEESPORT MODEL RAILROAD CLUB IS HOSTING ITS ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE THIS WEEKEND. FAMILIES CAN EXPLORE 2200FT OF MODEL TRAINS. THE ELABORATE DISPLAYS CHANGE FROM YEAR TO YEAR AND ...

Design development for Frank Gehry’s model railroad museum in rural New England is chugging along. The Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum aims to condense the wide world of ...

Tom Baughman is part modeler, part artist, part engineer. It is the latter — both in design and in trains — that makes him a master at what he does. The proof is in his model railroads. “He is a ...

A hedge fund hotshot’s lawsuit over a toy railroad setup sounds more like the great train robbery than Thomas the Tank Engine. Robert Mercer is accusing the builder of overcharging him by nearly $2 ...

For some, the allure of a real, physical world that you create and control is overwhelming. Combine that with a love of trains, and you get the model railroad. Some are incredibly detailed, and it ...