Most of us would be pretty happy with ourselves if we made one of those neat “epoxy river” types of art for our home. Not so with prolific maker [Peter Waldraff]. [Peter] is a skilled craftsman with a ...

These Reading Company model locomotives and boxcar are among Managing Editor Roger DuPuis’ recent acquisitions. It’s not entirely a thought experiment. As editor Roger DuPuis outlined in Sunday’s page ...

Many people remember a childhood with an electric train set. Perhaps it was an HO-scale layout on a sheet of plywood in the basement or a brand-new Lionel set first discovered under the Christmas tree ...

This story originally appeared in the December 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. How many of us found something we loved as a ...

G-scale layouts include larger trains and scenery that are usually run outside because of their size and durability; they are called garden layouts. There is a smaller room with a smaller N-gauge ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - In Roanoke, the Virginia Museum of Transportation highlights some heavyweights of railroad history. In the museum’s basement, members of the Roanoke Valley Model Railroad Club ...

Did you know Milwaukee is the birthplace of model railroading and continues to dominate in the hobby today? It's true, thanks to W. Walthers, Inc., a family-owned local business that was started in ...

Where does model railroading rank among Americans’ favorite hobbies? “It depends on whom you ask and how you define `hobby,’ ” says Jim Slocum, editor and publisher of Model Retailer magazine in ...

Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others can occasionally be ...

It has always been, and will always be, July 10, 1975 in Ralph S. DeBlasi’s basement. The basement, which DeBlasi of Camden County refers to as his “time machine,” is home to his prototype model ...