Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Richard Oehrig spends his lunch hours laying railroad track and carefully gluing pieces of scale-size gravel along the tracks. Sometime he’s so busy with his project that he ...

The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society’s famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout was broken up again, this time for good.

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 ...

FORTVILLEWhen John Kitterman was looking for a workshop where he could house a business building model train layouts, the concrete building available for rent wasn\'t what he wanted.Nestled on a quiet ...

EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest models ...