“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 ...

Every holiday season, Christmas Tree Lane turns into a must stop destination for model train lovers, all thanks to one man who turned his labor of love for the last 15 years into a massive tribute ...

From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. next Saturday, a side room at the Middletown Library will feature three model train displays, in three size scales, set up by Little Rhody.

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Growing up, Rob Caves remembers there was always a train set under his family Christmas tree. As an adult, the Los Angeles native has brought this fond memory, and his passion, on a grand scale to ...

An 80-year-old resident of Hazle Twp., Hoegg took an interest in model trains when his grandparents, one of whom worked on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, introduced him to the hobby as a child.

The complex dioramas include 400 bridges, 200,000 pounds of plaster and 50,000 ft. of model train track which equates to over 8 miles, he said. It can take a family more than two hours to tour all ...

They are in attics or basements, anywhere there is space to set up elaborate model train sets complete with villages that support homes, banks and churches. Cats are strictly prohibited (they have a ...

The Hudson Model Railroad Club in Plains Township has been keeping this commitment to realism in its sets since the 1980s.

NORMAL — The sight of trains gets Jaxon Phipps excited. The Normal 5-year-old was one of several dozen visitors this weekend to the N Scale of Bloomington-Normal model railroading club's annual ...

Every holiday season, Christmas Tree Lane turns into a must stop destination for model train lovers, all thanks to one man who turned his labor of love for the last 15 years into a massive tribute ...