RPI’s famed model train layout will be reimagined

The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout is breaking up again, this time for good.
Staten Island Advance

Meticulously detailed train layout in basement of Meiers Corners house delivers the goods at Yule

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Christmas, including Santa Claus and his flying reindeer, runs right on schedule in the Meiers Corners household where James Westgate spends two weeks assembling the elaborate ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

An elaborate scale model railroad layout chugs its engine in a Leominster, Mass. home

FULL TIME JOB TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY. THIS IS HIS NON PAYING ONE, THE ONE HE’S WORKED AT FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS. IT’S A HOBBY THAT HELPS ME KEEP WHAT LITTLE SANITY I HAVE. IT’S A GREAT ESCAPE FROM THE ...
The Times Leader

Master Of His Own Little World Barry Yelen’s Been Working On The Railroad … In His Basement, That Is

“This is basically a layout under construction,” he said. There’s no hurry. Besides, he said, no model railroader really wants a layout to be done. The joy for him is in building it. As Yelen speaks, ...
The Post-Crescent

I built 1950s Appleton as model railroad in my basement

APPLETON - If you’ve been to Pierce Park or Jefferson School, you’ve glimpsed my model railroad. If you’ve been to the History Museum at the Castle, you’ve walked where my little people walk. If ...