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

TROY - The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout, which inspired generations of model train builders across the world and fueled the hobby's red-hot popularity ...

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 ...

The Ligonier Valley Rail Road is rolling over the track once more — in railroad historian and hobbyist Bob Stutzman’s Latrobe basement. The original railroad operated from 1877 to 1952, hauling ...

A freight train chugs past the blast furnaces of the once-mighty Bethlehem Steel, taking visitors at the Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum in Bethlehem on a journey back to America’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 ...

MADISON — Dr. Alan Friedler loves spending countless hours perfecting his model train layout. And this is a passion he never outgrew from when he was a kid. An onlooker might feel like a kid again ...

What is Christmastime without model trains? Many years ago, as a routine part of the holiday festivities, train sets — large American Flyer or Lionel — were set up in homes to run on tracks underneath ...

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