It’s also the roughly 400 bridges made of balsa wood (the longest of which spans 40 feet), more than 1,000 model buildings and the nearly 300,000 pounds of plaster sculpted into deep canyons and ...

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

Model railroad at Seashore Trolley Museum poised to open in 2024 Construction has commenced on the building that will house it; then comes set up, and new sections of rails and buildings and ...

Buildings are assembled from kits, many of them reshaped and redesigned. Moylan’s passion first developed when, like other children, he received a Christmas train set one year.

A model depicts the interior of the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum,as displayed in EMRCA developers' North Adams office on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018.

So far, Caves estimated that his backyard train universe contains 30 scale miles of tracks. In non-model train speak, he explained, think of one scale mile as "if you were a tiny figure on the ...

A display of railroad history at the Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club in the rear basement of NOE Office Equipment at 610 Green St. where an open house will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.

A Green Valley man has inherited a cherished family tradition that has captivated his heart for years — a massive model train collection and setup passed down from his late father-in-law, Bob.

The model recreates the look of the area as it existed in the ’80s. “It all started because I used to spend a lot of time at Heaton Lodge as a 12-year-old kid watching the trains go by ...

We're now engaged." According to George, he spent eight years building the 200-foot-long model, which recreates a 1.5-mile-long stretch of real train tracks located in West Yorkshire.