Richard Dobler is a railroad baron in the manner of Henry Flagler, though on a less ostentatious scale. Adjacent to his home between Lake Wales and Dundee lies an 18-acre model train domain that he — ...

The inches-high, blue-and-gray model engine backed up to the line of yellow-orange boxcars, bumping against the closest and causing the whole line to shift. The newly wedded train then labored forward ...

HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity ...

Chris Thorpe wants to create a replica of trains using lasers. Like any serious hobby, model trains offer the enthusiast any number of rabbit holes to travel down. There are dozens of scales and ...

The Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad came to Sanford in 1870 along with a new depot. Trains stopped and passed through Sanford for the next 100 years. The antique depot was taken out of service in 1947 ...

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 ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Learn all about the history of railroads in Fort Wayne with a model train presentation this weekend. “The Great Train Connection” is at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

The Berkshire Eagle feature about my friend, Jack Trowill, and his model train collection inspired this baby boomer memory. One of the favorite Christmas or Hanukkah gifts that my friends and I ...