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For most involved in the hobby, model trains involve buying track from off-the-shelf suppliers, and lots of delicate painting and finishing. Conversely, [Ivan] just wanted to make something fast and ...

Dieter’s Train Town was designed and built inside a 4,000-square-foot warehouse in Virginia Beach by Dieter Steinhoff and friends during the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s still a work in progress.

As kids for generations have done, Landon Tennant looks longingly at a streamlined Lionel Santa Fe engine as it chugs around a tiny display with houses, mountains and bridges at TrainLand, a hobby ...

The fancy model trains produced by renowned toymaking company Maerklin were a hit with GIs in the aftermath of World War II when U.S. forces set up shop around the German town of Goppingen. Nowadays, ...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — In Pinellas Park, there's an age-old business that not only survived the pandemic but grew stronger because of it. Like the real-life steel titans, their models are made to ...

Matt Boehm can pinpoint when his interest to start the Model Train Club of Zelienople began. A little more than five years ago, his sister, Sandy, gave him their father’s train set. It was a hobby he ...

Edgar B. Herwick III is an award-winning journalist who hosts The Curiosity Desk, GBH News’ daily show where he answers your questions, digs deeper into trending topics and explores some of the ...

The livingroom coffee table has long been a favorite realm of the model railroad. But what to do when you actually want to have coffee? [Peter Waldraff] has come up with a most eloquent answer to the ...

A Lionel toy train around the Christmas tree continues to be a fixture of holiday tradition in some families. The iconic American company is about to roll into its 125th anniversary. When you think of ...

If we are fortunate enough to have good genes, avoid fatal accidents, and escape catastrophic illness, it will come to all of us: old age. Model railroaders with huge layouts face a unique set of ...