The miniature train models are made to scale and the museum partners with HUB Division, Inc. of the Northeast Region of the National Model Railroad Association to make the layouts come to life.

When a model train enthusiast gets to assembling a landscape in his basement, he or she wants that realism. Cheap plastics and shortcuts will not do. “Every type of wood you see in the real wo ...

(Mike Deal / Free Press files) But it was a visit to a local model railroader’s basement mode train layout when he was eight that sparked a lifelong passion for model railroading. “My dad took ...