Choose a railroad car. Kit should be simple construction techniques. Any scale is allowed. Very little gluing should be needed to complete the kit. Division 2 (Grades 5) Division 2: Choose a railroad ...

There, in a 2,500-square-foot space with drawers full of model locomotives and office walls plastered with train schedules, the men and women, many grayed from old age, return to their childhoods.

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 ...

What model railroaders do. As with any human endeavor, model rail activity, which began in the 1840s, comes with its own language. A crucial set of the railroading terms deal with scale.

For those who know their model trains, large scale includes S-scale, O-scale (Lionel size), G-scale (often found in garden railroads), F-scale, 7 ¼ gauge, and 7 ½ gauge models.

That’s not all you’ll find at the home of model-train club Scale Rails of Southwest Florida, where its 46 members have duplicated those towns as a model-train layout. “I call it 3-D art ...