A hiss of steam, then a loud whistle blast, shatters the calm as the locomotive prepares to depart from the station. A set of orders from the dispatcher is given to the engineer and the last of the ...
On the top floor of an old red barn in Wilson - the Antique Barn and Hobby Shop - is 467 miles of mainline railroad track. It's an enormous model-train layout, and the trains are running. The ...
Barry Swartz of Springettsbury Township has built his model railroad layout for 77 years, ever since his father bought him his first O gauge Lionel train when he was just months old. Unfortunately, ...
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.
ELLENSBURG, Wash. – At first, Jim Pendley just wanted to build a replica of two Northern California railroad bridges that he traveled over in the heart of the scenic Sierra Nevada in the mid-1980s as ...
The magic word at the Clarendon Park Community Center on a recent Saturday was “triangles.” The instructions “add more triangles” could be heard all over the room. “Triangles are really, really strong ...
The Pocomoke Area Model Train Club is hoping to expand its membership with an open house on October 11. WMDT visited the club ...
The Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s Fall Open House will span four weekends. The club has both an O scale and smaller HO train layout with each featuring more than 100 scale miles of track.