TROY - The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout, which inspired generations of model train builders across the world and fueled the hobby's red-hot popularity ...

Q: What layout is behind Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno when he hosts “Cody’s Office” on Trains.com? — James Macko A: The layout in the background is the Winston-Salem Southbound Tar ...

SIGOURNEY - I should have brought binoculars. That's the only way to see from one end of Lyle Dumont's new model railroad to the other. It's 90 feet long, nearly a third of a football field.

ABILENE, Texas — For 35 years, the Abilene Society of Model Railroaders has been preserving and sharing the city’s railroad history, welcoming the public to see how the rails helped shape Abilene and ...

FRANKENMUTH, MI -- Visitors to the Bavarian Festival in Frankenmuth can experience a miniature journey through Europe when the Great Lakes Chapter of European Train Enthusiasts displays its model ...

S-scale modeler Larry Robertson chats with a visitor as his freight train pauses on the tracks. Note the trailer-on-flatcar loads, an activity of progressive railroads starting in the 1950s. Photos: ...

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