Creating a new railroad from the ground up may strike some as difficult, but W. Allen McClelland is famous in the annals of model railroad history for creating the Lilliputian Virginia & Ohio Railroad ...

Many people remember a childhood with an electric train set. Perhaps it was an HO-scale layout on a sheet of plywood in the basement or a brand-new Lionel set first discovered under the Christmas tree ...

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 ...

Model railroading's cross-generational appeal takes center stage at the San Antonio Model Railroad Association's 50th Annual ...

“I started out with HO scale trains, but in my late teens I discovered N scale and I found that I could create more realistic scenes due to the proportion of scenery to trains.” An N scale train is ...

Adults who love model railroading say it sometimes makes them feel like kids again. Their concern is to make sure that today’s kids, and the generations of kids to come, will follow in their footsteps ...

For 80 years, Athearn has been a part of the model railroading industry, producing familiar product ranges like HO scale blue box kits and Genesis ready-to-run models. In preparation for its milestone ...

You wouldn’t think the town of Pueblo, Colorado, would fit into a 2,500-square-foot building in North Fort Myers. But it does. And so does San Bernardino, Castle Rock, Denver and several other ...

When Robin Claxton was seven years old, his father built him and his little brother a model train layout with a 4’ by 8’ sheet of plywood and some old tracks and engines at the family’s home in Sharon ...