PLAINS, Pa. — Depending on your point of view, model railroad scenery can easily make you feel like you're somewhere you've seen before. "A danger sign on the fence is sort of like, 'What's the point ...

Railroad scenes in the HO scale have been set up at Mahon Library, and trains in the N scale are operating at Groves Library to introduce Lubbock-area residents to the meticulous detail of model ...

Aron, 5, and his mother look out at the LOXX miniature train landscape at the Alexa shopping centre in Berlin. The huge model train set recreates, in 1:87 scale, Berlin landmarks as well as humorous ...

Here are some numbers that help explain why jaws drop at the first sight of the model-train set that tech entrepreneur Peter Hambling is having built in the basement of his Medina family home: • The ...

The biggest model railroad club in the Northwest has hand-built everything from Union Station to Multnomah Falls in meticulous detail — with the occasional whimsical flourish (we see you, Bigfoot).

As the soft sound of bells and a rhythmic clacking filled the air, John “JB” Breitmaier bent down to peer into a 4-inch tunnel carved into the demi-wall separating two sections of train tracks. “It’s ...

The average age of the model-train enthusiast is typically over fifty. He’s part of a legion, mainly male, of WWII-era kids and early boomers whose childhood dream it was to unwrap a Lionel train set ...

Idea person: Glen Rosenbaum, a partner at the law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP. Big idea: Showcase history through model train room. Where it came from: In the early '50s, when Rosenbaum was three or four ...