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 ...

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 ...

TULSA, OK -- Model railroading is a year-round hobby, but it takes on a special significance at Christmas time. Hugh Keen of Tulsa is a retired mechanical engineer. Now he’s the engineer on his own ...

Pieces of the Rensselaer Model Railroad Society’s 4,000-square-foot model train layout are ready to be taken away by volunteers working with the National Model Railroad Association’s northeast region ...

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 ...

Jeff Springer plays with model trains all day. And he gets paid for it. Mr. Springer is one of fewer than 20 people in the United States whose full-time occupation is building model train layouts.

MEDINA, Washington — EDITOR'S NOTE: A version of this story first aired in January 2019. The owners are now looking for a new home for the model train layout -- ideally an organization that could take ...