Some of Lancaster County’s most elaborate model train sets have light shows, combine multiple-gauge trains and show real and made-up towns. The holiday season is the only time to see most of them. The ...

For those who have been lamenting the closure of Shartlesville’s Roadside America two years ago and need their holiday train fix, the “Nostalgic Christmas Trains” exhibit at the Reading Railroad ...

As kids for generations have done, Landon Tennant looks longingly at a streamlined Lionel Santa Fe engine as it chugs around a tiny display with houses, mountains and bridges at TrainLand, a hobby ...

The Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s Christmas Open House will be held from 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Saturday in the basement of NOE Office Equipment, 610 Green St., Parkersburg. Prize drawings for “Polar ...

Concealed in the basement of a downtown Wauconda coffee shop is something that would amaze any child, or adult for that matter — a complete landscaped small-gauge train layout, with familiar sites and ...

A Lionel toy train around the Christmas tree continues to be a fixture of holiday tradition in some families. The iconic American company is about to roll into its 125th anniversary. When you think of ...

What is Christmastime without model trains? Many years ago, as a routine part of the holiday festivities, train sets — large American Flyer or Lionel — were set up in homes to run on tracks underneath ...

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Mike Stawinski was 8 years old when his father, Stanly, brought home a model train he found while working for Harrison in 1965. Stawinski, now 60, took his father’s find and built it into a lifelong ...

The Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s annual Christmas Open House will be held from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Dec. 3 in the rear basement of NOE Office Equipment, 610 Green St. The family-oriented event is ...

The Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s Fall Open House will span four weekends. The club has both an O scale and smaller HO train layout with each featuring more than 100 scale miles of track.