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

His second layout was called the Peconic River and Orient, a more realistic track with properly scaled trains and no oversize postwar Lionel accessories. But he wasn’t satisfied.

When Sam Posey’s wife, Ellen, announced she was pregnant with their first child, he knew then and there he would be building a toy train layout. It was a birthright. He just couldn’t guess it ...

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 can occasionally be ...

The beloved model-train layouts in the basement of Union Station have reached the end of the line. Back when two developers were competing for the contract to redevelop the facility, both promised ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where ...

North Shore Meticulously detailed train layout in basement of Meiers Corners house delivers the goods at Yule Updated: Dec. 24, 2010, 3:59 p.m. | Published: Dec. 24, 2010, 2:59 p.m. By ...

So down here in the basement is this funky railroad layout, built more than 50 years ago of chicken wire, papier mache, miniature rails and devotion. Some of the city's proposals would reduce the ...

The basement of Union Station has been home to two model train clubs for many years. In an effort to renovate the building and to create a safe environment for future patrons, we must ask these ...

After he started college, the trains remained in storage in the basement. "Then in 1998 my wife said ‘Why don’t you put up the trains this year for Christmas. So I said, ‘Why not.’ ...

New member Ronald W. LeBlanc of Dudley started working on a train layout in his home in 1984 for a Blackstone Valley Railroad he created that follows the old Blackstone Canal.