76-year-old Phil Haile has a lifelong hobby of building electric train layouts. His prized possession has become quite an attraction during the holidays. Now, his current layout spans over 1,600 ...

A woman with a child dashes to board a passenger train, their coats flying in the breeze. A man sits crossed-legged on a bench, waiting for another train to arrive on the next track. Across the rail ...

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 ...

Sign up for our LI Press email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Trainville Hobby Depot has once again compiled a ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...

If you walk into James A. Deignan's cellar and expect to see a Lionel train tooting around a tiny track, you may be in for a surprise. What is there is a massive multitrack system with many trains, ...

The Amherst Railway Society’s 53rd Railroad Hobby Show will fill four buildings and nearly 11 acres of floor space when it arrives at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield Jan. 25 and 26.

"There are no bad train days." That's how collector Craig Chidester feels when he escapes down to his basement and spends time with his electric trains. The 56-year-old Westmont resident is an avid ...

Bill Grove, who has been running train shows for nearly three decades, said the hobby of setting up small electric trains to run on tracks along landscapes in the home is growing. The Great Train Show ...