A move to a new home gave me a chance to start fresh with a new layout. This would be my third layout and – at 30′-6″ x 40′-0″ – my most ambitious model railroad undertaking to date. I really wanted ...

Choosing between HO and N scale is a key decision that will shape your entire model railroading experience. The scale you pick impacts how much space you need, the level of detail you can achieve, and ...

Details of the Four County Society of Model Engineers’ HO scale train layout at The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore Thursday, April 15, 2021. The layout, designed to replicate a mid-1950s summer day ...

Rapt and in a model train moment all his own, Owen Rash of Tacoma looks over an HO scale model layout during the 2014 Model Train Festival show at the Washington State History Museum. This year’s show ...

Mike Stawinski was 8 years old when his father, Stanly, brought home a model train he found while working for Harrison in 1965. Stawinski, now 60, took his father’s find and built it into a lifelong ...

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 ...