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 ...

It's a hobby based on modeling one of America's first big businesses -- the railroad. It's also a hobby that is itself a big business. Scale-model railroading revenues amount to about $500 million a ...

Ryan Kunkle, supervisor of visitor services at the Railroad Museum of Pa., can remember lying in bed as a little boy as the not-too distant echoes of train whistles lulled him to sleep. "The trains ...

Creating a new railroad from the ground up may strike some as difficult, but W. Allen McClelland is famous in the annals of model railroad history for creating the Lilliputian Virginia & Ohio Railroad ...

Nobody looks bored at a model train show. Some people stare intently at crisscrossing objects in motion. Others build or fix things with the analytical skills of an engineer. Still others explain the ...

You wouldn’t think the town of Pueblo, Colorado, would fit into a 2,500-square-foot building in North Fort Myers. But it does. And so does San Bernardino, Castle Rock, Denver and several other ...

“The only thing we request is to bring nonperishable food items for Friendly Hands Food Bank,” Hales said. The 1,800-square-foot space in the Lewis Street building is filled with realistic scenes ...

Known as “The Train Lady,” North Barrington resident Elaine Silets is the owner and operator of the Harvey M. Silets Memorial O-Scale Model Railroad Museum, which is named after her late husband. The ...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - A summer open house on Saturday in Lansing to check out an H.O. scale model railroad. The model represents parts of Michigan, the old historic depot, and the vintage Michigan ...