Plans to move the Illiana Garden Railroad Society’s G-scale railroad to Sunset Hill Farm County Park are becoming a reality after officials found a suitable location for the Bull Moose Line, which had ...

At more than 7,000-square-feet, the backyard is landscaped with an impressive collection of ornamental grasses, perennials, groundcovers, roses, shrubs and small trees, as well a few boulders, ...

An old Western town has taken over Gary and Jonette Lee's backyard. Tiny Baker City, with its barbershop, cabins and stores, is part of a development crisscrossed by train tracks. Chugging through ...

Railroads in the Park rolls into Lake Metroparks Farmpark June 4 and 5 with operating model train displays and N-Scale layouts. The event will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and other featured ...

Jim Jacob has railroad tracks running right through his back yard. He isn’t kept awake by the commotion of passing trains, though. He just turns the power off. Jacob is the proprietor of the Roaring ...

Elaine G. Silets, internationally renowned designer and the only female manufacturer in the U.S. of model railroads and garden railways, is affectionately known as "The Train Lady." This weekend, she ...

May 25—"Railroads in the Park" is coming June 3 and 4 to Lake Metroparks Farmpark. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day attendees can celebrate railroads as the event will feature operating model train ...