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

Robert Johnson specifically bought his home because of his dream to build a giant model railroad. He spent the next 21 years building the display in his Menomonee Falls basement.

THIS MAY LOOK LIKE A DISPLAY OUT OF TRAIN MUSEUM, BUT IT’S NOT. THIS MODEL TRAIN SET IS INSIDE RENE AND NANCY HARMS CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP HOME. >> IT TOOK OFF INTO TAKING OVER OUR WHOLE BASEMENT ...

“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 ...

I was allowed to go into the basement once a day to work on my trains and that kept my sanity.” Urquhart said for him, playing with his model trains is therapeutic.

Lovers of model trains eagerly walk through their doors. "When people put up a Christmas tree, they always want to put a train up around it," said Jack Cohen, owner of SW Randall Toyes & Gifts ...

Richard Fifield’s Epsom basement is a bustling depot. “Jug City Railway,” the miniature railroad he began building in 1981, now boasts a Walmart loading dock, an oil refinery, a wood pulp ...

A train display of the Circus being unloaded from the railroad tracks in town set up by Al Strausner of the West Willow United Methodist Church in Willow Street, waits for viewers in the basement ...

Dave Maher shows off a portion of the world of model trains he created in his Londonderry basement. LONDONDERRY — Trains seem to run in Dave Maher’s family.