For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

There’s just something about miniature worlds — they’re just so relaxing to look at and ponder. Think you don’t have ample room for a model train layout at your place? You may not be thinking small ...

CANFIELD, Ohio -- Lionel is one of the best-known model train makers in the world. It has fans (and customers) just about everywhere, and its products can sell for hundreds of dollars. In the last 113 ...

As the locomotive rolled past a gritty urban scene, engineer Lavon Stauffer smiled. “Now watch this,” he said. He increased the throttle, blew the airhorn and rang the locomotive’s bell ... all from ...

At Maker Faire this weekend. tucked in between a building full of homegrown foodstuffs and a rock polishing booth is the Bay Area Garden Railway Society (BAGRS). They’re running a few live steam ...

Real life railroads big and small, more than 60 model railroads of all scales and landscapes, plus everything and anything for train lovers of all ages awaits those making tracks to this weekend’s ...

The image generates cozy and nostalgic thoughts: a miniature train chugging among snow-covered houses underneath a Christmas tree. Perhaps you don’t have a model train layout as part of your holiday ...

The Allied Model Trains building in Culver City has sold to Tova Capital, Inc. and is slated to be converted into creative office space. Tova Capital announced the $8.2 million purchase today. “We ...

I am a huge fan of old trains and when I saw this amazing Lego Ideas train, I knew I had to write about it. I think the reason why I like old trains is that they remind me of the Hogwarts train. This ...