EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest models ...

When members of the Four County Society of Model Engineers decided to enter their modular train layout in the largest train show in North America, they expected to have fun. They did not expect to ...

Looking for a unique gift for the train aficionado in your life? An Oliver, B.C., resident is selling his model railway layout, a one-of-a-kind design that took hundreds of hours to create. “Holy ...

SIGOURNEY - I should have brought binoculars. That's the only way to see from one end of Lyle Dumont's new model railroad to the other. It's 90 feet long, nearly a third of a football field. "This IS ...

The passenger train pulls away from the station, picking up speed as it passes a busy bowling green and people relaxing on deckchairs. A short distance away, a man stands on a bridge watching a ...

When the Museum of Science and Industry unveils its model railroad exhibit this fall, Chicagoans will be able to look down on a miniature Loop, complete with operating elevated trains clattering over ...

It's not every day that more than 800 model-train enthusiasts gather in one place to hook their trains together and create one gigantic layout. But that's what's happening Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 7-8, ...

"My plan is to never finish, and I'm right on schedule," joked Bob Ford about the HO-Scale model train layout he's building in the basement of his home in The Waterfront in Franklin County. Ford does ...

Jeff Springer plays with model trains all day. And he gets paid for it. Mr. Springer is one of fewer than 20 people in the United States whose full-time occupation is building model train layouts.

Tom Galvin, background, shows his grandchildren the model railroad layout at the Metro East Model Railroad Club’s annual open house Saturday. A replica of the mid-20th century Glen Carbon water tower ...