EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest models ...
Five men have been working on a new HO model railroad layout for four months and now are hoping their new creation will be ready for the return of The Ford’s Colony Model Railroad Show to James City ...
BRANDON, Wis. (WBAY) - Watching trains go by as a young boy inspired a life-long hobby for a Fond du Lac County man. Later in life, he spent nearly four decades creating a massive model train layout.
CROCKETT — Extensive model railroad layouts will be operating and on display to the public during the fourth annual Crockett Railroad Days fom 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 24 and 25. Two model train clubs ...
When members of the Four County Society of Model Engineers decided to enter their modular train layout in the largest train show in North America, they expected to have fun. They did not expect to ...
Cheri Payson, owner of Northeast Train and Model, tripped a switch on the side of the HO model train layout, and suddenly “Kingstonville” came to life — light pouring out the windows of the stores and ...
Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.
His father always set up an elaborate network of Lionel model trains late on Dec. 24, so when Frank Winner and his little brother, Jim, got up Christmas mornings, they’d find the living room of the ...
Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...