Here are some numbers that help explain why jaws drop at the first sight of the model-train set that tech entrepreneur Peter Hambling is having built in the basement of his Medina family home: • The ...

Concealed in the basement of a downtown Wauconda coffee shop is something that would amaze any child, or adult for that matter — a complete landscaped small-gauge train layout, with familiar sites and ...

Chris Jerson, 14, sets a locomotive on the tracks and watches as the model HO-scale engine backs into the round house for “servicing.” As switchman, his job is to apply the hand brakes and throw the ...

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 ...

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Dec. 4—Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree.

For more than a decade, Rob Caves has invited the public to his Altadena backyard to experience an ever-growing model train universe built by him and his fellow hobbyists in the Christmas Tree Lane ...

Idea person: Glen Rosenbaum, a partner at the law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP. Big idea: Showcase history through model train room. Where it came from: In the early '50s, when Rosenbaum was three or four ...

The Greater Cincinnati Modular Railroad Association will return to Liberty Center in December with a holiday Model Train Display. “At Liberty Center, we are right by Santa. There are lot of kids and ...