You never know where change will lead you. What started out as an attempt to fine-tune my existing HO scale layout ended with a new house and a 2,600 square-foot, four-deck model railroad – the Sunset ...

The Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s Fall Open House will span four weekends. The club has both an O scale and smaller HO train layout with each featuring more than 100 scale miles of track.

Many of us dream of a model railroad empire on a massive scale. While the time, space and resources required usually dictate ...

Layout visit to the N scale Modutrak display, as presented at Trainfest 2025 in Milwaukee, Wis.

Mike Stawinski was 8 years old when his father, Stanly, brought home a model train he found while working for Harrison in 1965. Stawinski, now 60, took his father’s find and built it into a lifelong ...

A freight train chugs past the blast furnaces of the once-mighty Bethlehem Steel, taking visitors at the Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum in Bethlehem on a journey back to America’s ...

James Crist is a local train enthusiast and craftsman living in Westminster. Crist first got interested in trains when he came out of the Navy in 1966. About the same time, he purchased a set of HO ...

If you have even a passing interest in trains, the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Mass., is the place to be this weekend. The annual Amherst Railway Society Railroad Hobby Show is ...

As 2025 concludes, Model Railroader's Eric White, Cody Grivno, Lucas Iverson, and David Popp share some of their favorite ...