LONDONDERRY — Trains seem to run in Dave Maher’s family. He met his wife, Deborah, when he gave up his seat to an older woman on the MBTA Green Line — and asked her out when they happened to meet ...

It might appear to just be the boiler room insie 28 Marine Avenue in Bay Ridge, but behind a door lies a massive model railroad layout that takes up the whole room. It's the headquarters of the Bay ...

During the 15th annual Model Railroad Open House, four local train enthusiasts are inviting the public to tour a shrunken Swedesboro, a tiny Woodbury Heights, a scaled-down Deptford and a miniature ...

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - To say Bob Bandy has a model train hobby is like saying Peyton Manning sometimes tosses a football around in the yard. In the basement of his Gleneagle home, Bandy and a devoted ...

“This is basically a layout under construction,” he said. There’s no hurry. Besides, he said, no model railroader really wants a layout to be done. The joy for him is in building it. As Yelen speaks, ...

It has always been, and will always be, July 10, 1975 in Ralph S. DeBlasi’s basement. The basement, which DeBlasi of Camden County refers to as his “time machine,” is home to his prototype model ...

APPLETON - If you’ve been to Pierce Park or Jefferson School, you’ve glimpsed my model railroad. If you’ve been to the History Museum at the Castle, you’ve walked where my little people walk. If ...

Retired professional golfer Ed Dougherty built a six-car garage for his home in Pennsylvania, but it contains no automobiles. None that are big enough to transport people, that is. Mr. Dougherty, 72, ...

SAUGERTIES>> For some, trains are a means for getting to work. For others, these miles-long behemoths are but a brief interruption in a person’s trip to work or school as they deliver goods ranging ...

LARAMIE — There are many reasons that people spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to build intricate model railroads. They are drawn to the hobby by a passion for trains, by the artistic ...