There’s nothing quite like that feeling of running a “first train” on a new model railroad. Although the scenery is still ...

The chugging engine and piercing whistle revealed the approach of the G-scale model train, even before the headlight shined ...

Rumbling train tracks and a blaring horn mean that the Crescent Lines are approaching a rural Louisiana town. A chugging freight train comes into view, passes a cluster of cabins in a campsite and ...

Trains run the tracks in their faraway land, where the world's problems are traded for Christmas morning. And it's always Christmas morning when the Old Hickory Railroad Museum's doors give way to ...

Concealed in the basement of a downtown Wauconda coffee shop is something that would amaze any child, or adult for that matter — a complete landscaped small-gauge train layout, with familiar sites and ...

A Financial Analyst and late Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Duke shared a passion for creating joy with vintage trains While they both worked at Duke, Travis Washburn and Dr. Thomas Kinney ...

Classical music wended its way from radio speakers and down miniature railroad tracks to where Montrose was being built by several members of the Grand Valley Model Railroad Club. It's a regular ...

This story originally was published Dec. 7, 2017. It has been updated with information about the train expansion and a new covered bridge. As the engineer of Frysville Farms’ trains, Vincent Fry plans ...

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