The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout is breaking up again, this time for good.
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 ...
For more information about the Inland Northwest Garden Railroad Society visit inlandnorthwestgardenrailroadsociety.org/index.html. What's your pandemic project? Have ...
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 ...
“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, ...
Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...
It might appear to just be the boiler room insie 28 Marine Avenue in Bay Ridge, but behind a door lies a massive model railroad layout that takes up the whole room. It's the headquarters of the Bay ...
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 ...
When Sam Posey’s wife, Ellen, announced she was pregnant with their first child, he knew then and there he would be building a toy train layout. It was a birthright. He just couldn’t guess it would ...
For many baby boomers, and some younger folks as well, the December holidays are synonymous with model trains. Many in the postwar generation grew up with Lionel or American Flyer rolling stock ...
You never know where change will lead you. What started out as an attempt to fine-tune my existing HO scale layout ended with a new house and a 2,600 square-foot, four-deck model railroad – the Sunset ...