Tucked between a residential neighborhood and a school athletic field in Malden is a large, red brick building that looks a little like an old train depot. That’s fitting. Four words in large ...

The Shelburne Museum’s model train set can be operated by museum visitors at the push of a button, without staff present. Credit: James Buck Morning light streamed through the antique windows of the ...

The fancy model trains produced by renowned toymaking company Maerklin were a hit with GIs in the aftermath of World War II when U.S. forces set up shop around the German town of Goppingen. Nowadays, ...

The Oakton Train Yard is the grand, lifelong project of Evanston resident David Homer, whose fascination with model ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

There’s something magical about watching a toy train climb the mountains, snaking through green valleys and misty ridges. These toy trains, as they came to be called, are not just a traveller’s ...

As a kid, like many I presume, I loved building toy train lines during the holidays. I would build them as long and complex as I could. Or at least as long as the amount of tracks I had and the space ...

A steady hum of miniature electric motors and tiny train whistles Saturday filled Fundemonium in Rohnert Park as the store’s annual Fall Train Show returned. What: Fall Train Show When: 10 a.m. to 6 p ...