Of the 18 museums in Balboa Park, only one is in a basement. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is the successor to a rich ...

Frees City is like any other small town in America, or more likely the ones you remember. There’s a deli, and an auto shop, ...

Known as "the train guy," D. Scott Peterson of Weston has been playing with model railroads for most of his life. Peterson is a 47-year member of the Wisconsin Valley Model Railroad Club, which meets ...

Here are some numbers that help explain why jaws drop at the first sight of the model-train set that tech entrepreneur Peter Hambling is having built in the basement of his Medina family home: • The ...

Regina Shepherd, of the New York Transit Museum, is one of the people who makes a free moment of holiday magic possible every ...

Bruce Zaccagnino built this 8-mile long train but says he's never ridden a real one. Annie Wermiel/NY Post For nearly five years in the 1990s, Bruce Zaccagnino spent 19 hours each day outfitting the ...

Starting at Union Station in Los Angeles, it takes about 20 to 25 minutes to reach the end of the line at the Bakersfield rail yards. “Close to an hour round trip,” Paul Koehler said. “That’s assuming ...

On Sunday, visitors to the Kalamazoo County Expo Center can explore more than 175 vendor tables at the Kalamazoo Model ...

In Bethel, one man has spent decades building a tiny world that's brought him a lifetime of joy. Sign up for our Newsletters But now, the 92-year-old is ready to hand the controls to someone else who ...

MANY TRAIN ENTHUSIASTS DREAM OF DRIVING A REAL TRAIN, BUT THEY CAN’T. SO THE NEXT BEST THING IS TO PRETEND BY OPERATING A TRAIN AND A LIFE IMITATING MODEL RAILROAD EXHIBIT. AND WHAT BETTER TIME TO ...