Scale-model trains are a functional pastime for hundreds Thomas R. Oldt, Ledger columnist Richard Dobler is a railroad baron in the manner of Henry Flagler, though on a less ostentatious scale.

Involved in the layout will be two areas of HO scale buildings. One would be a town and the other a “coal town,” similar to one where the mother of Treiber’s wife Georgia was raised.

Laurence Lau sounds an electronic whistle as children study a fictionalized version of an urban train interchange. The ...

In Hamburg, Germany, housed in a nondescript brick building, you’ll find the Miniatur Wunderland – the largest HO scale model railroad in the world. The model, which has taken more than ...