Billed as the largest monthly event of its kind in the world, the Great Midwest Train Show lived up to its name Sunday at the DuPage County Fairgrounds in Wheaton. With more than 500 tables of new and ...

Construction of an addition to the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum in Richland won’t derail its holiday train show. The 37th annual show is slated to run from Nov. 8 to Jan. 11 at the ...

When my Northern California town adopted Ordinance #1309 in 2019—strongly urging homeowners to clear shrubs, hedges and even herbs from the 5-foot zone around their houses to help prevent wildfires—I ...

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“A steam train!” a young boy exclaimed, shaking his hands with wild enthusiasm. “Look at that one!” He sat cross-legged on the ground in the backyard of Alan and Nola Olsen, literally shaking with ...

A day before the start of the Great Train Show, the Indiana State Fairgrounds bustled with activity. Members of the Conductors of Indiana Train Club, along with clubs from Connecticut, Ohio and ...

Youngstown Model Railroad Association officer Bruce Silvernail handles the switching operations at one of the large yards on the HO layout. The YMRA HO layout will appear in the national magazine, ...

Friar Mountain Model Railroad Museum in Sparta is closing at the end of July and its contents will be sold to the public, its co-owner, Wendy Molinari, recently told NJ Advance Media. The museum was ...

TEL AVIV — Israeli troops stationed on the Lebanese border fired a medieval-style siege weapon known as a trebuchet amid recent fighting against Hezbollah militants, an Israeli military official ...

Nearly 50 years after it went missing, the original model of the USS Starship Enterprise from the hit show “Star Trek” is finally voyaging home. The 33-inch model—the same one that appears in the ...

The Sebring Model Railroad Club open house will continue Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The HO scale lay out has three main lines with six trains running, switching out with six more every ...