For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree. The allure of model trains followed the growth of ...

“Now, you walk around it and get an aerial view. Back then, you sat on a train or a tram, and you went around it,” Macken recalled. “And I just remember just going around it and thinking, ‘Wow, this ...

Reno may be “the biggest little city in the world,” but it's got some serious competition from the miniature New York City that hobbyist Joseph Macken built in his upstate New York basement over two ...