In their backyard, Al and Bev Mann have 550 feet of model-railroad tracks that run past a pond, a waterfall, a market and a used-car dealership, among many other landmarks. But in 2005, the first year ...

As a young boy, LaMonte Thomas watched in awe as locomotives passed by his middle school. He dreamed of jumping aboard and taking off for destinations unknown. His fascination with trains has stuck ...

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 ...

It’s the time of year for gift giving (and gift getting). For some of us, Christmas recalls a time when a tiny electric train ran around the tree on a bumpy carpet, never quite as beautiful as it was ...

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, ...

The image generates cozy and nostalgic thoughts: a miniature train chugging among snow-covered houses underneath a Christmas tree. Perhaps you don’t have a model train layout as part of your holiday ...