Since we broke the sad news yesterday that the two model-train layouts that have been in the basement of Union Station for decades — eight decades, in one case — will not be there when Union Station ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Christmas, including Santa Claus and his flying reindeer, runs right on schedule in the Meiers Corners household where James Westgate spends two weeks assembling the elaborate ...

Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others can occasionally be ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...

For many baby boomers, and some younger folks as well, the December holidays are synonymous with model trains. Many in the postwar generation grew up with Lionel or American Flyer rolling stock ...

The violent storm that tore through Denver on Thursday flooded basements, stalled cars and even derailed one of the city’s smallest hidden treasures. The Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad Club’s ...

When I cut a hole in the living room wall in order to expand my N scale railroad into the hallway beyond, I thought that was ...

ROCKY HILL, N.J.—Jeff Bernardis had to keep the trains running on time. Perched at a bank of computer monitors, he relayed orders to the engineers of nearly a dozen trains ferrying oil, beer and ...

FULL TIME JOB TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY. THIS IS HIS NON PAYING ONE, THE ONE HE’S WORKED AT FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS. IT’S A HOBBY THAT HELPS ME KEEP WHAT LITTLE SANITY I HAVE. IT’S A GREAT ESCAPE FROM THE ...