Dale Desser, of Erie, doesn't want visitors to simply watch his spectacular model railroad. He invites people to operate it.

Machutta’s basement layout features two primary sets. One is a collection of Lionel buildings from 1945 and the other is from 1947.

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When Sam Posey’s wife, Ellen, announced she was pregnant with their first child, he knew then and there he would be building a toy train layout. It was a birthright. He just couldn’t guess it ...

His second layout was called the Peconic River and Orient, a more realistic track with properly scaled trains and no oversize postwar Lionel accessories. But he wasn’t satisfied.

The hamlets live on in a toy train layout filling the Hockessin basement of Dennis Cannon, born on Christmas Eve 1949. "The puffs of smoke and the smell of the engines just evoke Christmas," he said.

Gabehart’s N scale (1:160, smaller than HO scale) Allegheny Northern model railroad winds 165 feet on a shelf-type, walkaround layout that is 52 inches off his basement’s floor.

In his Portage home, he had two smaller train layouts, a 4-by-8-foot one in the basement and an 11-by- 3-foot one upstairs.

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where ...

The basement of Union Station has been home to two model train clubs for many years. In an effort to renovate the building and to create a safe environment for future patrons, we must ask these ...