Most of us would be pretty happy with ourselves if we made one of those neat “epoxy river” types of art for our home. Not so with prolific maker [Peter Waldraff]. [Peter] is a skilled craftsman with a ...

Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or as a ...

Mentoring kids is challenging, rewarding, and fun. There is no doubt in my mind that Model Railroading can provide a solid ...

Adults who love model railroading say it sometimes makes them feel like kids again. Their concern is to make sure that today’s kids, and the generations of kids to come, will follow in their footsteps ...

Ryan Kunkle, supervisor of visitor services at the Railroad Museum of Pa., can remember lying in bed as a little boy as the not-too distant echoes of train whistles lulled him to sleep. "The trains ...

Did you know Milwaukee is the birthplace of model railroading and continues to dominate in the hobby today? It's true, thanks to W. Walthers, Inc., a family-owned local business that was started in ...

“I started out with HO scale trains, but in my late teens I discovered N scale and I found that I could create more realistic scenes due to the proportion of scenery to trains.” An N scale train is ...

This model of a West Virginia Pulp & Paper Shay steam locomotive will be running on the Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s HO scale modular layout at the group’s 29th Annual Fall Train Show ...

When Robin Claxton was seven years old, his father built him and his little brother a model train layout with a 4’ by 8’ sheet of plywood and some old tracks and engines at the family’s home in Sharon ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana NTRAK, Montana's N Scale model railroading club, will set up its train layout in the ...