Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's model train layout of the fictional New England, Berkshire & Western Railroad has been ...

Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take inspiration ...

Pieces of the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society’s 4,000-square-foot model train layout are ready to be taken away by volunteers working with the National Model Railroad Association’s northeast region ...

MADISON — Dr. Alan Friedler loves spending countless hours perfecting his model train layout. And this is a passion he never outgrew from when he was a kid. An onlooker might feel like a kid again ...

Idea person: Glen Rosenbaum, a partner at the law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP. Big idea: Showcase history through model train room. Where it came from: In the early '50s, when Rosenbaum was three or four ...

Pastor Ben Grove adjusts an engine that has gone slightly off track on his model railroad replica of the Altoona region in his home basement. His layout features famous Altoona area landmarks such as ...

Some might say that if you’ve seen one model train layout you’ve seen them all. Anyone who has ever attended the Color Country Model Railroad Club’s annual Model Railroad Open House knows that is ...

There’s just something about miniature worlds — they’re just so relaxing to look at and ponder. Think you don’t have ample room for a model train layout at your place? You may not be thinking small ...

You’d probably expect caskets to be in the basement of a typical funeral home — but not this one. Hidden beneath a trap door sits an expansive model railroad th ...