STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Christmas, including Santa Claus and his flying reindeer, runs right on schedule in the Meiers Corners household where James Westgate spends two weeks assembling the elaborate ...

The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout is breaking up again, this time for good.

Having to disassemble a train layout is always frustrating, thinking about the time and effort I put into building it. But ...

Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take inspiration ...

MADISON — Dr. Alan Friedler loves spending countless hours perfecting his model train layout. And this is a passion he never outgrew from when he was a kid. An onlooker might feel like a kid again ...

It's forever Christmas Eve in Cannonsburg and Cannonsville: It says so on the only way into these special places where carols are playing, Santa's flying overhead and holiday lights are all aglow. But ...

No matter how old some people get, trains have the ability to awaken in them a childlike delight. At least, that's the experience of the Arizona Big Train Operators, a group of model railroad ...

When you enter the Ocala Model Railroaders Historic Preservation Society headquarters, you may think you hear the conductor's cry to board an early steam or modern diesel electric locomotive driven ...