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 ...

On Christmas morning in 1950, I received Lionel freight set No. 1469WS. The included booklet “Instructions for assembling and operating Lionel Trains” had pictures of the Lionel showroom layout. On ...

S-scale modeler Larry Robertson chats with a visitor as his freight train pauses on the tracks. Note the trailer-on-flatcar loads, an activity of progressive railroads starting in the 1950s. Photos: ...

Members of the Tulsa Garden Railroad Club are opening their backyard train layouts to the public this weekend and again in ...

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 ...