James Smith, 7, (middle) shows excitement as trains move on the HO-scale model railway layout built by the Brandon Hills Model Railway Club in five years at the Commonwealth Air Training Plan ...

The most popular scale in America is "HO," sometimes rendered as "H0," or 1:87, meaning the layout and rolling stock are reduced from 1 foot in life to 3.5 mm in model format.

“Each of us has his own train and it will be a thrill for us to see them running on this layout,” explained Treiber. The 2020 Model Railroad Show fell victim to COVID-19, breaking a 15-year run.

In two rooms, they’ve assembled a 6- by 34-foot N-scale layout of a Tidewater, Virginia railroad depot, and also a 25- by 50-foot HO- and HOn3-scale layout that features Southern California on ...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others ...