EVERETT — A small-scale version of grand past railroads in the Puget Sound area is planned at Everett Station. The Swamp Creek and Western Railroad Association, a model railroad group, signed a lease ...

Design development for Frank Gehry’s model railroad museum in rural New England is chugging along. The Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum aims to condense the wide world of ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...

”I`m not embarrassed to say it. I like to play with trains,” said Wayne Wesolowski of Elburn. Wesolowski`s involvement with model trains is far from child`s play, however. Together with his wife, Mary ...

The biggest model railroad club in the Northwest has hand-built everything from Union Station to Multnomah Falls in meticulous detail — with the occasional whimsical flourish (we see you, Bigfoot).