It’s the time of year for gift giving (and gift getting). For some of us, Christmas recalls a time when a tiny electric train ran around the tree on a bumpy carpet, never quite as beautiful as it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's model train layout of the fictional New England, Berkshire & Western Railroad has been ...

EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest models ...

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 ...

James Crist is a local train enthusiast and craftsman living in Westminster. Crist first got interested in trains when he came out of the Navy in 1966. About the same time, he purchased a set of HO ...

A freight train chugs past the blast furnaces of the once-mighty Bethlehem Steel, taking visitors at the Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum in Bethlehem on a journey back to America’s ...

JT Gehrke replaces a locomotive on a G Scale Sante Fe Super Chief on the track last week at The Old Cannery Furniture Warehouse in Sumner. Joshua Bessex jbessex@gateline.com For many, The Old Cannery ...

The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society’s famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout was broken up again, this time for good.

TROY - The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout, which inspired generations of model train builders across the world and fueled the hobby's red-hot popularity ...