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 ...

A train is seen at the 19th Annual Railroad Heritage Weekend at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds on Sunday. Over 200 vendor tables were on display. VAN WERT — Over 200 tables of model railroad train ...

When catching public transport, it’s very helpful if the bus or train in question has a large display indicating the route or destination. While many transit lines now rely on flipdot or LED displays, ...

AVON LAKE — For Ray Litten, model trains are more than just a business. In the back warehouse of Uncle Ray’s Trains, 32961 Pin Oak Parkway, Avon Lake, the faint and pleasant smell of liquid smoke ...

For Bob Davey of Valparaiso browsing the tables of model train engines, cars and components Saturday at the 3rd annual Thanksgiving Weekend Model Train Show was a trip down memory lane. “When I was a ...

Jamie Haislip has gone from playing with model trains as a youngster to working with a 44-ton railroad engine as an adult. The 52-year-old electrical contractor recently purchased a 1949 diesel ...

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, ...

Astrid Buss, 2, of Mill Valley and other young volunteers paint sections of a life sized model of the historic No. 9 locomotive at the Mill Valley Lumber Yard in Mill Valley on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021.

Harry Buhler showed children how to run a model train around a track. Eliza Empey, 8, backed up the train and then raced it around the rails past a model train station with tiny people on benches. Her ...

Sep. 27—Outside the hangar, the morning sun bounced off polished chrome as families wandered between rows of gleaming classic cars. Inside, the air buzzed with excitement, the low hum of model train ...

Outside the hangar, the morning sun bounced off polished chrome as families wandered between rows of gleaming classic cars. Inside, the air buzzed with excitement, the low hum of model train engines, ...