Manufacturers come and go in model railroading. The large scale market, primarily G gauge, is no exception, with a wide range of scales to choose from, and whether you're taking the hobby indoors or ...

Richard Dobler is a railroad baron in the manner of Henry Flagler, though on a less ostentatious scale. Adjacent to his home between Lake Wales and Dundee lies an 18-acre model train domain that he — ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Big little trains might sound like an oxymoron, but you’re not likely to find these oversized models running around under your Christmas tree. These bigger rolling stock took to the ...

There are about nine model train clubs on Long Island, but apparently only the West Island Model Railroad Club in Hicksville allows visitors to run its trains at open houses. And at this year’s ...

Some travel tracks that wind around hotel suites and sprawling gardens. Others are so small you need tricks of photography to see them. But all these model trains are the incredible result of ...

Jane Sanders runs the controls of the model train display that her husband, Stephen, had built in their Dallas home. Louis DeLuca / Staff Photographer DALLAS — When Jane Sanders decided it was time to ...

Modeling a railroad is hard. Railroads are large, linear pieces of civil engineering. So many modelers are drawn to the smallest scale they can use. Recently a new scale, named T, at 1:450 has been ...

Cherry Hill, leading model engineer who made working steam-powered locomotives at 1:16 scale Her models could contain more than 5,000 parts: ‘Every nut and bolt is made in my workshop, so a full model ...

As kids for generations have done, Landon Tennant looks longingly at a streamlined Lionel Santa Fe engine as it chugs around a tiny display with houses, mountains and bridges at TrainLand, a hobby ...

COMMERCE TWP., MI - If only Sheldon Cooper had known about this place. This is said to be the country's largest operating O scale train model railroad. This place has more than three dozen model ...