Smiles come easy to the leadership of the Hawkeye Model Railroad Club these days. That’s because the group of local die-hard train lovers will soon move into their own new 3,200-square-foot building ...

In the fictional town of Franklin, residents are soon to get new buildings with working electrical lights and a marquee sign for their local theater. The village, loosely based on Frederick in the ...

At Maker Faire this weekend. tucked in between a building full of homegrown foodstuffs and a rock polishing booth is the Bay Area Garden Railway Society (BAGRS). They’re running a few live steam ...

A few times a week, in a small unassuming white building in North Fort Myers, a group of friends — some former presidents of large concrete and trucking companies in Chicago, others investment ...

Get out the engineer’s cap, overalls and red bandanna for a major model train show this weekend at the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History in Kennesaw. The third annual Trains Trains ...

As the locomotive rolled past a gritty urban scene, engineer Lavon Stauffer smiled. “Now watch this,” he said. He increased the throttle, blew the airhorn and rang the locomotive’s bell ... all from ...

I am a huge fan of old trains and when I saw this amazing Lego Ideas train, I knew I had to write about it. I think the reason why I like old trains is that they remind me of the Hogwarts train. This ...