Chris Thorpe wants to create a replica of trains using lasers. Like any serious hobby, model trains offer the enthusiast any number of rabbit holes to travel down. There are dozens of scales and ...

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Model trains are fun, but sometimes little whirring motors in electric models feel a long way from the hulking metal beasts of the real railways. [Lewis] of [DIY Machines] adds back some of the flavor ...

Believe it or not, there are now exactly 105 days 'till Christmas - counting, naturally, from the time this story was published. For many of us, that means it's time to prep ourselves for what's to ...

A professor at Dakota State University is putting his 3D printers to good use this holiday season by printing toys to donate to Toys for Tots. Tyler Flaagan, assistant professor of computer and cyber ...

It’s all about scale at the California State Railroad Museum.“I think we have a lot of think going for us. It's big trains — something about the scale of coming into a 225,000 square-foot facility and ...

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 ...

A major railway operator in Japan is embarking on a journey to build what it says will be the world’s first 3D-printed train station. The new station structure, measuring about 108 square feet, will ...

This is the third blog post from our guest blogger, Nevin Hawlman. If you are enjoying these blogs, please post a note in the comments section. —Mother This personalized wooden toy train is the ...