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 ...

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 ...

In this video, we show how to create a wooden model of The Leviathan locomotive, built in 1838 by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Great Western Railway. The Leviathan was one of the largest ...

For years, many families have a model train display as part of the Christmas season’s decorations. Do you have fond memories of one, or do you still set up a display? My memory of a train display ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...