With today’s technology, the relatively low cost of laser cutting tool equipment and the ease of on-demand production has made it possible for small retailers to enter the model kit business. Among ...

Large Scale Model Railroaders from across the region are at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield for the Northeast Large Scale Train Show. The show features S, O and G scales and larger, ...

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 ...

Railroad enthusiasts are getting a return trip this year to the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield. In addition to the annual Railroad Hobby Show held there each year in January by the ...

The massive model railroad layout members of the Springfield Model Railroad Club created in their meeting space isn’t a toy. Named “Springfield Terminal Railway Association,” the club’s model railroad ...

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 ...

♪ >> PETER DOES WORK A FULL-TIME JOB SUPPORT HIS FAMILY. THIS IS IS NONPAYING ONE, THE ONE HE HAS WORKED AT FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS. >> IT IS A HOBBY THAT HELPS ME KEEP THE LITTLE SANITY I HAVE. IT’S ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In digging through the issue again today, I found that the January issue had many points of interest, including an article about ...

Railroads used to crisscross Redstone Arsenal with their whistles and bells cutting through the night air. On Tuesday nights in a building, tucked in the WWII-era warehouses, the sound of train ...

Watch Michael Bertoia appraise a Lionel 700E Hudson scale train model, ca. 1940, in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 2. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American ...

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