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

Deep in Frisco’s Discovery Center, a man’s life is laid out in model train tracks in a 3,000-square-foot room. When no one is around, the room is quiet and dark. As the project nears completion, the ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron Grant Taylor, 18, of Boardman, busily connects two cars on the model train layout he designed that was part of the show. CANFIELD — Grant Taylor isn’t hesitant about ...

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 ...

Youngstown Model Railroad Association officer Bruce Silvernail handles the switching operations at one of the large yards on the HO layout. The YMRA HO layout will appear in the national magazine, ...

A model train layout in Manheim shows, in miniature, life in the borough in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Many of the scenes are replicas of Manheim landmarks and were built by hand, combining a ...

More than 3,000 model train enthusiasts are expected to visit dozens of vendors and see several train layout displays during Rochester’s largest toy train event, RIT Tiger Tracks Train Show and Sale, ...

Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree. The allure of model trains followed the growth of ...

JAMES CITY — Thousands of model railroad lovers are expected this weekend at the James City County Library to watch — and help operate — trains set up for the holidays. Visitors will get to see seven ...

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