Evans and Braiterman spoke about the layouts their club sets up at shows, most recently, at the Great Scale and Model Train Show at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium over the weekend of ...

Scheerens in December 1999 started building a model train layout that would loop throughout his roughly 500-square-foot, one bedroom Everett apartment. He attached the railway to wooden planks and ...

Lyle Dumont and his wife, Helen, share a laugh as they look over the new 40-by-90 foot Lionel model train layout at their Dumont Museum south of Sigourney. Photo was taken Friday, Nov. 30, 2012.

Today, the whistle blows as many as 40 times a day, inspiring Kitterman to create elaborate landscapes for model trains.His company, Kittworks, primarily designs O-scale modular train layouts.

Unique about his train display is the buildings. Based loosely on a 1950s-era Christmas setting, Swartz has included custom-built models of iconic local buildings and businesses.

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 ...

The nonprofit Carquinez Model Railroad Society (www.cmrstrainclub.org) is on the second floor of the building, where it has an HO-scale layout modeling the real life Union Pacific mainline from ...

Dave Goulbourn stands in the middle of a 30-by-32-square-foot electric model railroad April 17 at a friend’s home in Las Vegas. Goulbourn maintains the exhibit after building it from scratch.

The boy and his train set have grown up together over the past 60 years. More than 500 Lionel and other models now line the tracks and shelves of Hughes' 2,500-square-foot shop on his 6-acre ...

When John Kitterman was looking for a workshop where he could house a business building model train layouts, the concrete building available for rent wasn't what he wanted. Nestled on a quiet side ...

So, in 2002, the model railroading club transformed the tiny structure into a step back in time. “We put up drywall, and, of course, the layout and the ceiling and the carpeting and the lights ...