Combined with increased competition from catalog and Internet sales, Twiford said he knew the holiday season – when he usually expected about 60 percent of his annual sales – would be slow.

A Long Island model railroad club is all aboard for its largest-sized open house yet. The group spent 16 months crafting a 6,500-square-foot display from scratch, placed alongside an iconic, blood ...

Leah Goodman, 10, and her mother Carrie, right, look at a detailed train and town diorama on display at Caboose Hobbies on August 14, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The store, which has been in Denver ...

But children had special reason to love trains. “Trains brought everything from visiting relatives to all the goods in town,” says Tony Cook, editor of Model Railroad News.

PATERSON — The massive model train layout belonging to the NJ HiRailers club, with one line spanning 420 feet of track, is normally a paragon of realism, from the brick-by-brick replica of the ...

Every holiday season, Christmas Tree Lane turns into a must stop destination for model train lovers, all thanks to one man who turned his labor of love for the last 15 years into a massive tribute ...