These are trains you can ride — by sitting atop freight cars and locomotives weighing up to 3,000 pounds — and it’s a serious and fairly expensive endeavor for those who get hooked.

Visitors look over one of the model train booths at the Painesville Railroad Museum’s final flea market of the year on Oct. 9. Vendors come to sell their model trains and collectibles, along ...

These model train creators and fans are members of the Long Island Garden Railway Society, formed in the late 1980s.

Members of Orange County Model Engineers are all smiles as they take their trains across the refurbished Hank Hornsveld Trestle in Costa Mesa, CA on Tuesday, October 25, 2022. The trestle was ...

Electric trains can be bought, sold or swapped, and running model-railroad layouts will be on display at the Woodward Fire Hall, Route 220, Williamsport. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. tomorrow. $3, with children ...

Families were lining up Saturday morning eager to get a chance to see some trains. It's for the Eastern Cascades Model Railroad Club's 25th annual Open House.

The Greater Baton Rouge Model Railroaders reopened its facilities in Jackson Saturday. The club is open free of charge on the second and fourth Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

RICHMOND, Va. – It’s a favorite tradition featuring lights, decorations, outdoor model trains, dinner, hot chocolate (for purchase) and more! Beth Monroe joins us to share what you’ll ...

Interest in model trains has varied over decades, even during Christmas. Since the 1950s, television, slot cars, plastic models and other diversions have diluted the attraction of model trains.