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EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest ...
For reasons we can’t comprehend, model train layouts are incredibly popular in Germany. [Gerhard] is one of those model train aficionados that has moved far beyond a layout with a transforme… ...
Jim Kuik has spent nearly four decades creating a massive model train layout. Thursday in Small Towns, Jeff Alexander takes us to Brandon to see Jim’s masterpiece. Kuik grew up in Waupun.
Pureber, who has been a model train enthusiast since he was 3 years old, prefers the small scale. “You can model the entire railroad,” he said of the smaller scale trains.
The New Jersey division of the National Model Railroad Association will be hosting the Mid-Eastern Region Fall Convention Oct. 22-25.
When Bill Wheeler first joined the Southwest Washington Model Railroaders in 1998, he recalled how he and fellow train enthusiasts met in a small room behind Safe Harbor Church on East Mill Plain Boul ...
CHICO — “Old toy trains, little toy tracks. Little boy toys, comin’ from a sack,” theses opening lines from Roger Miller’s 1965 Christmas carol “Old Toy Trains,&… ...
Young and old, the curious onlookers began gathering around the collection of small railroad cars, houses and scenery at the Kalispell Center Mall before Vance Carolin even had the chance to ...
On weekends, they offer rides for kids in a small model train. It is so much fun! Make sure to plan time to visit the historical museum and model train exhibit.
The rebuilt mostly-1960s-vintage model steam trains include engines, freight cars, cabooses, gondolas, hopper cars, flat cars, stock cars, tank cars, refrigerator cars, and maintenance-of-way ...
PATERSON, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- Picture the model trains under a Christmas tree, but to the extreme. In an old silk mill in Paterson, there's a miniature world of wonder, WCBS 880's Sean Adams ...
This week in Small Towns, we travel to Brandon to see Jim Kuik’s masterpiece. Jim’s eyes light up when he’s at the controls and his HO scale model trains are in motion.