BOSTON - The minute you walk into the "All Aboard! Trains at Science Park" exhibit at the Museum of Science, the feeling of being a kid again takes over. "It's just a fun exhibit. Everyone who comes ...

PLAINS, Pa. — Depending on your point of view, model railroad scenery can easily make you feel like you're somewhere you've seen before. "A danger sign on the fence is sort of like, 'What's the point ...

Railroad scenes in the HO scale have been set up at Mahon Library, and trains in the N scale are operating at Groves Library to introduce Lubbock-area residents to the meticulous detail of model ...

PORT CLINTON - Steve Tusen has taken model railroading to a whole other level. While most amateur model train displays have a few fake trees scattered here and there for effect, Tusen has created an ...

Idea person: Glen Rosenbaum, a partner at the law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP. Big idea: Showcase history through model train room. Where it came from: In the early '50s, when Rosenbaum was three or four ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...

The average age of the model-train enthusiast is typically over fifty. He’s part of a legion, mainly male, of WWII-era kids and early boomers whose childhood dream it was to unwrap a Lionel train set ...