When members of the Four County Society of Model Engineers decided to enter their modular train layout in the largest train show in North America, they expected to have fun. They did not expect to … ...

Scheerens in December 1999 started building a model train layout that would loop throughout his roughly 500-square-foot, one bedroom Everett apartment. He attached the railway to wooden planks and ...

Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take ...

Six years ago, when I stopped here for the first time, Lyle had satisfied his childhood dream of owning a model railroad by building a 25-by-30 foot layout in the front room.

The displays will be complete by Wednesday. The society will continue its annual tradition of building model train layouts in the old fire hall on Main Street, Stockertown.

Artist Steve Cryan of Old Saybrook was busy Wednesday working on building a model train layout for his 29th annual Holiday Train Show at the Connecticut River Museum in Essex.

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 ...

Hughes is in the midst of an estimated eight-year project to build his crowning achievement -- his biggest, most intricate, most ambitiously themed train-and-terrain replication ever.

Rod Stewart has been hiding a significant hobby: For 26 years, he has been building a model railroad — and city — in his LA mansion.

Helen Beal, 87, and her husband spent 20 years building this elaborate model railroad layout in a building next to their Jonesport home and allowing visitors in to see depictions of Maine towns ...

The model railroad layout was built by Helen and Harold “Buz” Beal in Jonesport. According to a news release, for decades, the couple opened their home to guests from all over the world to ...

The new model railroad layout for the new building has yet to be designed and will be the next major club project once the interior has been completed and the inventory moved.