HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity ...

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The Ligonier Valley Rail Road is rolling over the track once more — in railroad historian and hobbyist Bob Stutzman’s Latrobe basement. The original railroad operated from 1877 to 1952 ...

Petey USA is at the dawn of a new era. He recently changed his performing name from just Petey, and now he has a new song out today (January 24), “Model Train Town.”Petey previously teased the ...

The first phase of the California bullet train — a 171-mile link in the Central Valley — will be reduced to a single track as its estimated cost has risen by $2 billion, according to a revised ...

Get on board for this “job fair,” and though you won’t even have to think about switching careers, you’ll be on track for some fun. Kids ON TRACK: A Model Railroading Job Fair will take ...

If you know the right people, it’s possible to travel by train from Oakland to Sparks, Nevada in about 25 minutes. The catch is that the entirety of the trip exists inside a single, open-air room.

The retired elementary school principal has turned model train conductor in the town of Corning. This is the hard part on the old man. Dick spends most days out here fine tuning his 300 ft track ...

Howard Zane has been working on the railroad for thirty years--building a massive model train set complete with 150 locomotives, thousands of feet of track and more than 6,000 figures.

A lot bigger. Pedigo’s trains are 1:8 scale – large enough to carry several full-grown men over 1 1/2 miles of track. They cross the rolling hills of his land, six bridges and one 175-foot ...

“Training a single model is the minimum amount of work you can do,” says Emma Strubell, a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the lead author of the paper.