Model Railroading News

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

The Chattanooga Choo-Choo Train Show, being held in the Grand Central Station building at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel is a meet of operating train layouts , displays, sales of toy trains and train-related items , seminars, train drag races and more.

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.

It was a real treat for train enthusiasts. The popular Rail Barons model train display was put into operation Sunday at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.

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

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

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.

The annual event featured a number of little locomotives on display and people could purchase them as well.

Since 1862, when Council Bluffs was named the eastern terminus for a transcontinental railroad, mighty engines and steel-driving men have shaped the region.

Greeley is certainly on the right track. If you were anywhere close to downtown Greeley or Island Grove Regional Park over Memorial Day weekend, you know that we have the engine to power some great events.

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.

No, the new display at the Fernwood Botanical Garden & Nature Preserve isn't based on the railroad bridge in the 1957 film "The Bridge on the River Kwai.'' But the uppermost of four model railroad tracks, featuring trestles and bridges fashioned from willow trees, certainly brings to mind the award-winning movie.

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.

Peter Howey, owner of Just Train Crazy, is celebrating his move to a new location, and his fifth anniversary this year.

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.

Model railroad enthusiasts and railroad history buffs gathered Saturday at Depot Street Park for the 15th annual Belpre Railroad Day, sponsored by The Ohio and Little Kanawha Division, a chapter of the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society Inc.

Gregor Duncan presided and Colin Walker gave a vote of thanks. On Tuesday, June 16, the club will meet at David Lloyd Leisure at 10 a.m. when David Middleton will speak on 'Ships of the Caledon'. The full article contains 162 words and appears in n/a newspaper.

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.

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