Now their little model train city has 600 feet of tracks with bridges, tunnels, more than 100 train cars, and a dozen or so engines. “It’s just a lot of fun. We enjoy it,” Bob said.

Now their little model train city has 600 feet of tracks with bridges, tunnels, more than 100 train cars, and a dozen or so engines. “It’s just a lot of fun. We enjoy it,” Bob said.

When he’s not on the air, he can be found in his backyard running his 500 ft. model railroad yard! Snider says his father and grandfather worked for the Clenfield as dynamite […] ...

An original full-sized real-life rail car is called the prototype; the miniature model you carry around the backyard is called a model. Many people design their entire garden railroad based on a ...

The realistic G-scale trains, which are 1/22.5 the size of a real train, are so detailed they even have authentic sounding names, such as the A & T Express or the Corona & Southern Railroad and ...

The train gives a whistle and starts heading down the track alongside Nick and Bonnie Roark’s home outside of Augusta. “I’ve always had a model train somewhere since I was 7,” said Nick Roark.

Try Arizona Big Train Operators at (480) 924-8844 or azbigtrains.org, or Arizona Model Railroaders Association at (602) 493-0461 or www.azmodelrr.com. Decide what kind of railroad you want.

“It’s more than just sitting down and running a train around a Christmas tree,” said Tom, while watching his train run along the roughly 500 feet of track in his backyard.