MILTON — Every November, a group of model train enthusiasts descends on the Milton House Museum, taking hours to set up track on which miniature trains then weave in and around tiny scenery. On ...

Mark your calendars! The St. James Model Railroad Club will host its annual Winter Open House with vendors at the Mills Pond House, 176 Mills Pond Road, St. James on Saturday, Feb. 28 and Sunday, ...

For decades, they have been an essential holiday decoration, ranking right up there with mistletoe, garland and over-the-top bows and ribbons. It seems that no classic Christmas scene is complete ...

A hiss of steam, then a loud whistle blast, shatters the calm as the locomotive prepares to depart from the station. A set of orders from the dispatcher is given to the engineer and the last of the ...

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 ...

In a room off the detached garage of a home in southeast Cedar Rapids, it's always the early 1950s in central Pennsylvania, in miniature. Steam locomotives haul coal from area mines to rail yards ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...