FRANKENMUTH, Mich. (WNEM) - This year’s Bavarian Festival in Frankenmuth will have a look at the old country. The Great Lakes Chapter of European Train Enthusiasts will be showing off their H0 gauge ...

Love affairs with trains typically begin like this: A tyke watching in awe as a Lionel train set choo choos around a Christmas tree. Fast forward some number of decades, and you have John Campbell, ...

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MADISON — Dr. Alan Friedler loves spending countless hours perfecting his model train layout. And this is a passion he never outgrew from when he was a kid. An onlooker might feel like a kid again ...

JAMES CITY — Thousands of model railroad lovers are expected this weekend at the James City County Library to watch — and help operate — trains set up for the holidays. Visitors will get to see seven ...

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, ...

Ray Shelton is a retired Nassau County Police officer, but he has been working on the railroad for 40 years. Shelton’s Hicksville backyard is landscaped with bushes like a large, blooming prickly pear ...

OGDEN — The Hostlers Model Railroad Festival returns to Union Station for its 35th edition this weekend. This year’s event promises to be one of the biggest in recent memory, as more than 50 vendors, ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...

Some of Lancaster County’s most elaborate model train sets have light shows, combine multiple-gauge trains and show real and made-up towns. The holiday season is the only time to see most of them. The ...

It looked like it could have been *** page out of the history books for the old Union Station. Inside, onlookers young and old watched and waited for the train around the bend. But the trains here ...