PLYMOUTH, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Great American Train Company, LLC (GATC), a Minnesota-based manufacturer of backyard riding trains and accessories, announced today it is now shipping its first ...

NEPHI — Harry Heil, who took a lifetime love of classic locomotives and built a rider-sized train set in his backyard, earned a winning entry last year in the “Metal My Way” contest, a competition ...

A freight train flew off the rails in the center of a small North Texas town Wednesday morning, smashing into a resident's backyard and just narrowly missing his house, reports said. Seven of the ...

Eight-year-old John Bui waits to ride the Holiday Express Riding Train in Richardson. RICHARDSON — In his 81 years, Joel Occhiuzzo has been a traveling band leader, an Army sergeant, a chef and a car ...

Some build them in their basements. But Dick Shellenberg's train set takes up most of his backyard. The retired elementary school principal has turned model train conductor in the town of Corning.

HOLBROOK – Wearing a conductor’s cap, John Smythe flipped a switch, and the loud train crossing signal came to life with bells and flashing red lights. But Smythe wasn’t warning people of an actual ...

SCRANTON -- It wasn't your average crowd for late morning on a weekday. Dozens lined up at the Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton to get a look at its newest exhibit. "I wanted to see the train, ...