Dale Desser, of Erie, doesn't want visitors to simply watch his spectacular model railroad. He invites people to operate it.

The beloved model-train layouts in the basement of Union Station have reached the end of the line. Back when two developers were competing for the contract to redevelop the facility, both promised ...

Since we broke the sad news yesterday that the two model-train layouts that have been in the basement of Union Station for decades -- eight decades, in one case -- will not be there when Union ...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — 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 ...

Gabehart’s N scale (1:160, smaller than HO scale) Allegheny Northern model railroad winds 165 feet on a shelf-type, walkaround layout that is 52 inches off his basement’s floor.

North Shore Meticulously detailed train layout in basement of Meiers Corners house delivers the goods at Yule Updated: Dec. 24, 2010, 3:59 p.m. | Published: Dec. 24, 2010, 2:59 p.m. By ...

After he started college, the trains remained in storage in the basement. "Then in 1998 my wife said ‘Why don’t you put up the trains this year for Christmas. So I said, ‘Why not.’ ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where ...

When Sam Posey’s wife, Ellen, announced she was pregnant with their first child, he knew then and there he would be building a toy train layout. It was a birthright. He just couldn’t guess it ...

A model railroad club seeks a buyer for the New Jersey house that’s been its home for six decades. The pitch: Inherit 3,500 feet of track and 30 of “your strangest new best friends.” ...