(Abiola Odutola/The Brandon Sun) “The N-scale model has a ratio of 1:160, making it smaller, while the HO scale is 1:87, which is the most common scale in the world,” Stumme said on Saturday.

Annual Holiday Train Show and open house by Model Railroad Club Inc. in Union and an annual Holiday Model Railroad Exhibit by New York Society of Model Engineers in Carlstadt on December 3, 2022.

“Each of us has his own train and it will be a thrill for us to see them running on this layout,” explained Treiber. The 2020 Model Railroad Show fell victim to COVID-19, breaking a 15-year run.

The most popular scale in America is "HO," sometimes rendered as "H0," or 1:87, meaning the layout and rolling stock are reduced from 1 foot in life to 3.5 mm in model format.

O scale trains are 1:48 size models. While there are larger model railroad museums, Gribbell says he believes this is the biggest O scale model one.

“Most people think of trains and Christmas,” Atkinson said. This year’s setup includes three different layouts in HO, On30 and O Scale, which are model train sizes.

The 10 scale miles of model railway contain miniature houses, gardens, coal mines, a zoo, castles, windmills, wedding fox hunts and even escaped convicts. There are also more than 3000 shrubs and ...

The Humboldt Bay and Eureka Model Railroad Club will hold its Veterans Day weekend open house Saturday and Sunday at the clubhouse, Seventh and A streets in Eureka. The club operates an HO-scale ...

Society members recently displayed two highly detailed scale model train layouts at the National Model Railroad Association Convention held Aug. 5-12 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Detail of artist Steve Cryan’s functional model train layout Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, for his 29th annual Holiday Train Show at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex. (Dana Jensen/The Day) ...

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 ...

That show returns this weekend with more than 85 tables of new and used model-train equipment in various scales, plus a raffle of an HO-scale train layout built by club members.