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I've been fascinated by trains for as long as I can remember. Bought my first model railroad car, a little silver ore car in N scale, when I was about five. Got rid of the N scale stuff upon ...
This video features the restoration of a rusty railway car made by JEP (Jouets De Paris) for Unis France around 1945, which ...
Based on Kansas City Terminal Ry. Tower No. 2 in Kansas City, Mo. (Kit depicts tower before it was modified with two brick ...
No thanks, Dad. But one of those race car sets sure would be nice. Later, when the grandkids came along, he got a grandson a model train set. The lad's interest lasted a few months, then faded.
Dennis Lakomy has been collecting and running model trains since his dad gave him his first model train set in 1962. They are on display in his home near Port Huron and include an operating layout ...
Tru-Vue was a stereoscopic viewing system and line of films first marketed in the 1930s. Two simultaneous exposures of the ...
The R44 model train car, which was in service from 1973 until 2022, was decommissioned as the Staten Island Railway receives a fleet of 75 brand new rail cars, known as the R211 model, according ...
Kankakee Model Railroad Club's Florence Stove Company car is the latest induction into the catalog of collectible cars. It sits left of cars for Lehigh Stone and the Kankakee Daily Journal.
Running on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Nov. 29 to Dec. 15, the show will feature more than 200 model train cars on a 40×40-ft. layout. The layout will tell the story of New Jersey ...
Since the 1950s, television, slot cars, plastic models and other diversions have diluted the attraction of model trains. But though model trains “have probably slid in popularity, they’ve ...
Train horns are displayed on a table in the Elks Arts Center as children look at model railroad cars during Saturday’s Abilene Railroad Festival Sept. 7, 2024.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science's annual holiday display, Trains Over Texas, now includes model train cars graffiti'd by local street artists and muralists. The project is the brainchild of ...