Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take inspiration ...

Ryan Coleman writes in: Along the same lines of the Model Railroad club -- many of these groups create modular layouts out of 2' x 4' tabletops that are all built to specific standards. [Which you ...

Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads. For me, I can honestly say that my N scale Naugatuck Valley RR started with ...

One more model train posting and then I'll quit this theme for a while. This one is another comment added to the previous posts which I am elevating because of general interest in a such a nifty idea.

If you’ve followed Model Railroader’s Facebook page, you’ll probably know that periodically over the past several years, I’ve ...

When the Museum of Science and Industry unveils its model railroad exhibit this fall, Chicagoans will be able to look down on a miniature Loop, complete with operating elevated trains clattering over ...

Pieces of the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society’s 4,000-square-foot model train layout are ready to be taken away by volunteers working with the National Model Railroad Association’s northeast region ...

The beloved model-train layouts in the basement of Union Station have reached the end of the line. Back when two developers were competing for the contract to redevelop the facility, both promised ...

Markus Maas was just a child when he built his first model train layout, trying to cram his HO-gauge set into a small, already crowded Swiss apartment. But in the years that followed, he abandoned his ...