Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

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 ...

Andrew Brusgard, a third generation of Brusgard to be involved with the model trains, stands amongst an O scale model train layout during an annual Holiday Model Railroad Exhibit by New York Society ...

Young train enthusiasts had a chance to become railroad conductors last weekend during the Historic Pullman Foundation Model Train Experience. But the youngsters weren’t the only ones enthralled by ...

GRAND MEADOW — Wheels chug into motion. Steam pumps through model cylinders. A “piercing” bell switches tracks to “whistle talk.” It’s Wednesday morning train time with the Rail Runners Model Railroad ...

Figurines in an outdoor wintery scene on the train layout by the Mason Dixon Large Scale Railroad Society on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. The society’s 32nd annual model train display is setup in the ...

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MANY TRAIN ENTHUSIASTS DREAM OF DRIVING A REAL TRAIN, BUT THEY CAN’T. SO THE NEXT BEST THING IS TO PRETEND BY OPERATING A TRAIN AND A LIFE IMITATING MODEL RAILROAD EXHIBIT. AND WHAT BETTER TIME TO ...

It looked like it could have been *** page out of the history books for the old Union Station. Inside, onlookers young and old watched and waited for the train around the bend. But the trains here ...

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 ...