MADISON — Dr. Alan Friedler loves spending countless hours perfecting his model train layout. And this is a passion he never outgrew from when he was a kid. An onlooker might feel like a kid again ...

TROY - The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout, which inspired generations of model train builders across the world and fueled the hobby's red-hot popularity ...

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - To say Bob Bandy has a model train hobby is like saying Peyton Manning sometimes tosses a football around in the yard. In the basement of his Gleneagle home, Bandy and a devoted ...

PATERSON — The massive model train layout belonging to the NJ HiRailers club, with one line spanning 420 feet of track, is normally a paragon of realism, from the brick-by-brick replica of the Broad ...

The image generates cozy and nostalgic thoughts: a miniature train chugging among snow-covered houses underneath a Christmas tree. Perhaps you don’t have a model train layout as part of your holiday ...

Deep in Frisco’s Discovery Center, a man’s life is laid out in model train tracks in a 3,000-square-foot room. When no one is around, the room is quiet and dark. As the project nears completion, the ...

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 ...