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 ...

No matter how old some people get, trains have the ability to awaken in them a childlike delight. At least, that's the experience of the Arizona Big Train Operators, a group of model railroad ...

They‘ve been working on the railroad, but the 35 members of the Worcester Model Railroaders aren’t just passing the time away. Members have been building a model train layout that will fill the club’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I have this theory that toys we loved as kids have a way of imprinting themselves on some of us, certainly on ...

♪ >> PETER DOES WORK A FULL-TIME JOB SUPPORT HIS FAMILY. THIS IS IS NONPAYING ONE, THE ONE HE HAS WORKED AT FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS. >> IT IS A HOBBY THAT HELPS ME KEEP THE LITTLE SANITY I HAVE. IT’S ...

You never know where change will lead you. What started out as an attempt to fine-tune my existing HO scale layout ended with a new house and a 2,600 square-foot, four-deck model railroad – the Sunset ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — The York Train Fair returns this October, and organizers say it remains one of the largest toy train events in the United States. But as the hobby continues to grow older, there’s ...

It's forever Christmas Eve in Cannonsburg and Cannonsville: It says so on the only way into these special places where carols are playing, Santa's flying overhead and holiday lights are all aglow. But ...

Trains run the tracks in their faraway land, where the world's problems are traded for Christmas morning. And it's always Christmas morning when the Old Hickory Railroad Museum's doors give way to ...