A move to a new home gave me a chance to start fresh with a new layout. This would be my third layout and – at 30′-6″ x 40′-0″ – my most ambitious model railroad undertaking to date. I really wanted ...

MEDINA, Washington — EDITOR'S NOTE: A version of this story first aired in January 2019. The owners are now looking for a new home for the model train layout -- ideally an organization that could take ...

Wilkes-Barre Township resident John Cunius is seen with the 4-by-8-foot Lionel train layout he has been working on at night during the pandemic. Courtesy John Cunius Nick Pittman works on his New ...

CROCKETT — Extensive model railroad layouts will be operating and on display to the public during the fourth annual Crockett Railroad Days fom 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 24 and 25. Two model train clubs ...

Jeff Springer plays with model trains all day. And he gets paid for it. Mr. Springer is one of fewer than 20 people in the United States whose full-time occupation is building model train layouts.

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 ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...

GRAND MEADOW — Wheels chug into motion. Steam pumps through model cylinders. A “piercing” bell switches tracks to “whistle talk.” It’s Wednesday morning train time with the Rail Runners Model Railroad ...

NEARLY 30 PERCENT. MUCH OF THAT -- DRIVEN BY RECORD HIGH TARIFF REVENUES. A STORY WE FIRST BROUGHT YOU IN OCTOBER HAS NOW TAKEN ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN -- LITERALLY. AFTER GOING VIRAL ONLINE, A ...