Model Railroading News

You won't find it on the Metra schedule, but the Oak River Railroad runs between Chicago's Grand Central Station and Dubuque, Iowa, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and most Mondays at Oak Park's Dole Learning Center, 255 Augusta.

In the analog world, such parallel realities were built with tweezers, glue and a spousea TMs permission to cover the basement with papier-mA chA© massifs and plywood plains.

June 29, 2009 - 10:34 p.m. EST Sandy Eustis, a Keowee Key resident who has been a member of the Central Railroad Model and Historical Association since moving to the area two years ago, said he enjoys designing and constructing scenery surrounding the tracks where model trains travel.

Dr. James Moneyhun retired and closed his medical practice after 50 years of practicing medicine.

Hobo Pete plays the blues to Peter, 4, and Luke Kramer, 11, with dad John Kramer, of Brecksville, at Train Day.

Juergen Tiedt still remembers his very first model train. On Christmas Day, when he was eight years old, he unwrapped a gift box from his parents to find a bright yellow HO-scale Union Pacific locomotive.

Hobbyists of any ilk run the gamut from dabblers to devotees. Armand "Jack" Palleschi was one of the latter.

I have an N-scale Bachmann old timer/HO-scale steam locomotive/deisel and Lionel larger scale, I must sale all together.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Children age 12 and under who ride Amtrak's western trains can win a Lionel toy train set by describing what they like about riding on the train as part of the 10th annual Amtrak Lionel Kid's Essay Contest.

In this episode, we take a look through history for the bulk of the content. We start with a "biography" of one named steam locomotive that operated in the United States during the early days of railroading, and that you can still go see today.

After the successful transformation of a pump organ into a set of bookshelves , Cristi and I have been looking around for the next project to have underway in the basement for the odd free hour here and there where we want to play with power tools.

The Clinton Township Department of Parks and Recreation is offering discount amusement park tickets to Cedar Point, Waterford and Red Oaks Wave Pool, Michigan's Adventure, the Detroit Zoo, the Michigan State Fair and the Michigan Renaissance Festival.

Many of those who attended Saturday's Heritage Railway Festival in Manassas got to experience firsthand the power, noise and speed of a train during on-the-hour trips to Clifton and back.

They peer and they point, they gaze as if mesmerized at the sight of the model trains cheerfully chugging along the layout of landscaped hills and forests, small towns and cities.

Gilbert was born of a railway. So it's natural that the town pays tribute to its roots.

If there was one thing Jeff Picklo didn't want to give up, it was his HO-scale model train set.

Four kindergarten classes from Cuyuna Range Elementary School visited Crosslake over two days last week.

The investing experience has been a lot of things over the last couple of years but fun is not one of them for most people as global economies sink into the worst recession since the Second World War.

The Strawberry Fest Train Show has grown since it began in 1989 with three operating model train layouts and a couple of vendors.

I imagine it's been a long time, if ever, since you or anyone else saw a steam locomotive chugging, huffing and clacking down a stretch of track anywhere in the nation.