As a child, Connie Rudder was forbidden to go near her brothers’ model trains. “My older brother had a post-World War II Lionel set, and my younger brother had an HO set from the late ’60s or early ...

Welcome back to Cody’s Office! This month’s episode is packed with three new products, a helpful modeling tip, and answers to your viewer mail questions. Our featured products include the N scale ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Doug Lanphear's hobby requires a jeweler's eyes and a surgeon's hands. But as he holds up his ...

Price: Direct-current model with factory-installed speaker, $134.95; with ESU sound decoder, $249.95 Manufacturer: Atlas Model Railroad Co., 378 Florence Ave., Hillside, NJ 07205; 908-687-0880; ...

[Mario] can take his train set on the road with him because he build the thing inside of a suitcase. That in itself is pretty neat, but he pulled off more than just laying down a ring of track and ...

The call of the railroad hits some people hard, harkening back to a time when trains were the veins and arteries of the land, with large steam engines pulling railroad cars, moving people and freight ...