Periodically, I dig through old issues of Model Railroader with an eye toward changes in the hobby, as well as noting the introduction of techniques and layout design practices that we take for ...

In Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion—the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that ...

Kalmbach Media, a 90-year-old Wisconsin publisher, has sold its Model Railroader, Trains, Astronomy, and other magazines to a Tennessee publisher. The sale to Firecrown Media, of Chattanooga, also ...

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Jeff Jamison still has the first model train engine he received when he was 6 or 7. "It was a little Tyco diesel engine," he said, that his father gave him. Like most model-railroading hobbyists, ...

He just loves model railroading. Davis, 70, of Lima, spent much of the nine days of the Allen County Fair working on the ...

DENNISON A local model railroad group is looking for a few good volunteers to help maintain and preserve the expansive model train layout at the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum. The layout, one of the ...

WOODBURY — While everyone else is fooling with the newest version of the iPhone and Xbox 360s, Dave Skinner takes comfort in the days of Lionel trains and model railroads under the Christmas tree.

What led you to photograph model trains? Some grow up liking girls and beer—I also liked trains. In terms of photography, that was my father’s hobby—he had lots of nice cameras. Popular Photography ...

Of the 18 museums in Balboa Park, only one is in a basement. The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is the successor to a rich history of model railroading in the park. That history began in 1935, when a ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — In the Holler Lake neighborhood, a Seattle man's passion project is picking up steam. Manny Reale has brought to life a realistic model train town in his yard. He shares this niche hobby ...