Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take inspiration ...

The Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s Fall Open House will span four weekends. The club has both an O scale and smaller HO train layout with each featuring more than 100 scale miles of track.

Ryan Coleman writes in: Along the same lines of the Model Railroad club -- many of these groups create modular layouts out of 2' x 4' tabletops that are all built to specific standards. [Which you ...

SIGOURNEY - I should have brought binoculars. That's the only way to see from one end of Lyle Dumont's new model railroad to the other. It's 90 feet long, nearly a third of a football field. "This IS ...

Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others can occasionally be ...

The Pocomoke Area Model Train Club is hoping to expand its membership with an open house on October 11. WMDT visited the club ...

Forget about working on the railroad all the live long day. A group of North Side men has passed some 17 years constructing an intricate infrastructure only 1/87th actual size. A model railroad ...

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 ...

GRINNELL, Iowa (KCRG) - About 20 years ago, a Grinnell couple bought the depot building across from the south side of Central Park. It sits right along railroad tracks, and not far from where the two ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — On Saturday, the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club kicked off their open house for the 2023 year. The club said it has been hard at work all spring and summer, and is excited to ...

Open houses, whether at model railroad clubs or private home layouts, offer fantastic opportunities to connect with fellow modelers and share the hobby. It’s also a joy to see what makes a layout tick ...