Richard Fifield’s Epsom basement is a bustling depot. “Jug City Railway,” the miniature railroad he began building in 1981, now boasts a Walmart loading dock, an oil refinery, a wood pulp plant and ...

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 ...

There’s just something about miniature worlds — they’re just so relaxing to look at and ponder. Think you don’t have ample room for a model train layout at your place? You may not be thinking small ...

Chris France’s neighbor looked out the window of her Beltsville home recently and saw something in Mr. France’s yard that startled her. “She thought it was an animal at first,” Mr. France remembers.

TRADITION. REPOER:RT HISTORIANS SAY MODEL TRAINS GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1891 THEY’RE STILL POPULAR 130 YEARS LATER. THIS ONE IS THE MINIATURE RAILROAD & VILLAGE AT THE CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER AND IT ...

Young Jaxon Hartley, his mother Kayla Hartley and Barb Ruby enjoy the model railroad display at the Kalispell Center Mall Saturday, November 27. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Bill Luce and his ...

Young train enthusiasts had a chance to become railroad conductors last weekend during the Historic Pullman Foundation Model Train Experience. But the youngsters weren’t the only ones enthralled by ...

In 1960, one item sat atop my Christmas wish list: a model train set. Somehow, Santa got the message. Waiting for me under the tree was a Lionel Trains starter set. It contained a forward-only ...