SIGOURNEY - I should have brought binoculars. That's the only way to see from one end of Lyle Dumont's new model railroad to the other. It's 90 feet long, nearly a third of a football field. "This IS ...

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 ...

The Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s Fall Open House will span four weekends. The club has both an O scale and smaller HO train layout with each featuring more than 100 scale miles of track.

Some might say that if you’ve seen one model train layout you’ve seen them all. Anyone who has ever attended the Color Country Model Railroad Club’s annual Model Railroad Open House knows that is ...

Love affairs with trains typically begin like this: A tyke watching in awe as a Lionel train set choo choos around a Christmas tree. Fast forward some number of decades, and you have John Campbell, ...

The business park exterior of the Twin City Model Railroad Museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota is fairly unremarkable. But once inside, visitors of all ages are in for a magical, immersive experience—the ...

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 ...

Seattle & North Coast GP7 no. 717, still in the colors of its previous owner, leads a string of recently painted ore cars past the mine at Marmot. The scene is on the Boeing Employees' Model Railroad ...

A hiss of steam, then a loud whistle blast, shatters the calm as the locomotive prepares to depart from the station. A set of orders from the dispatcher is given to the engineer and the last of the ...

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine – The Maine Central Model Railroad will be relocating to a new home at Seashore Trolley Museum, located in Kennebunkport, Maine in 2022, with thanks to a very generous donation ...