Just a different era.” Tom became interested in trains as a child in the 1960s, starting with HO model trains before switching to all-gauge trains upon acquiring the collection.

The rolling stock included both freight and passenger, steam, diesel, and even a few electric trains, each with an era-accurate design and logo, a sort of alternate reality set in 1:87 scale.

Bidding for the train collection is through 6:30 p.m. Tuesday with live viewing from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday at the gallery. “Last Monday we had a viewing and there was a huge turnout of people of ...

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That’s footage shot from one of Shron’s model trains, superimposed over the window of a human-scale VIA train model. It looks, concerningly, like a rail train ride.

Frederick Wagner, center, looks at an O scale model train set with his mom, Amanda Baker, right, during an annual Holiday Model Railroad Exhibit by New York Society of Model Engineers in Carlstadt ...

“Setting up a train around the tree is the spark for someone to take those trains off the carpet and start building a model railroad,” Vondrak says. “I got my start in the hobby from a gift ...

Model railroad clubs from Massachusetts and Connecticut will be set up models in the concourse of Union Station, similar to a corporate job fair where employers set up and give prospective ...

Tom Diederich has spent years maintaining and expanding the collection, building on the legacy left to him by Bob, a fellow model train enthusiast who also served as a Sante Fe switchman. In 2018 ...