Chafee said one of the best things about Ludwig’s train sets is that he’s not only expert at design, he’s also skilled at building layouts where the electrical circuits work reliably and the ...

Barry Swartz of Springettsbury Township has built his model railroad layout for 77 years, ever since his father bought him his first O gauge Lionel train when he was just months old. Unfortunately ...

Likewise, the work required for an L gauge model railroad is of a completely different nature than the work put into an HO scale layout, for example.

Everything on the 5-by-12-foot layout dates to his childhood, including the Lionel prewar passenger train set his mother bought for his father.

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.