Scheerens earlier this month published a book, “ Apartment Model Trains: Two Examples, ” to share what he’s learned about building model train layouts in small apartments.

HAGERSTOWN — Hagerstown was nicknamed the “Hub City” during the heyday of coal and steam, a history that one can see in small scale at the Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum.

An old but effective trick for making a small layout is to build it on an old door. Layouts of this sort are usually made for children, or are set up during the Yule holidays. Some people use ...

A freight train chugs past the blast furnaces of the once-mighty Bethlehem Steel, taking visitors at the Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum in Bethlehem on a journey back to Americ… ...

In their backyard, Al and Bev Mann have 550 feet of model-railroad tracks that run past a pond, a waterfall, a market and a used-car dealership, among many other landmarks. But in 2005, the first ...

Matthew Glazer, president of the RIT Model Railroad Club, is helping vendors set up their railroad layouts for Rochester’s largest toy train exhibit, the RIT Tiger Tracks Train Show and Sale. For the ...

The Muskegon Railroad Historical Society hosted its Model Train and Toy Show with more than 60 vendors. More than 300 train and toy enthusiasts, including some children, had a chance to check out ...