“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 ...

Arnie’s Model Trains, a 3,600-square-foot Westminster shop dedicated to scale locomotives, will expand its retail space in June by adding a 3,400-square-foot unit next door. A brick-and-morta… ...

The model uses the popular HO scale, meaning that it has a ratio of 1:87 to the real thing — or 1/87th of the train’s actual size.

Bruce Zaccagnino built this 8-mile long train but says he's never ridden a real one. Annie Wermiel/NY Post For nearly five years in the 1990s, Bruce Zaccagnino spent 19 hours each day outfitting ...

One more model train posting and then I’ll quit this theme for a while. This one is another comment added to the previous posts which I am elevating because of general interest in a such a nifty ...

The centerpiece of the West Island Model Railroad, located in Hicksville, is the incredibly detailed Allentown, Pennsylvania train station. Compare the model to the actual station, pictured in 1960.

If you visit when the train exhibit is closed, you can still enjoy the full-size train locomotive and freight cars outside of the museum. On weekends, they offer rides for kids in a small model train.