Youngstown Model Railroad Association officer Bruce Silvernail handles the switching operations at one of the large yards on the HO layout. The YMRA HO layout will appear in the national magazine, ...

DELMAR – All Greg Coughlin ever wanted for Christmas as a kid was a train set. When he was 8 years old, Santa left an Athearn HO train under the family tree just for him. “That’s my best childhood ...

Concealed in the basement of a downtown Wauconda coffee shop is something that would amaze any child, or adult for that matter — a complete landscaped small-gauge train layout, with familiar sites and ...

Five men have been working on a new HO model railroad layout for four months and now are hoping their new creation will be ready for the return of The Ford’s Colony Model Railroad Show to James City ...

The Model Railroad Club’s Holiday Train Show and Open House in Union County is set to transport visitors back in time to the railroads of the 1950s. Running on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Nov.

PARKERSBURG — The Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club will unveil several new attractions and honor one of its deceased members with an open house on Saturday. The late Harold Shive will be remembered ...

The Youngstown Model Railroad Association’s Fall Open House will span four weekends. The club has both an O scale and smaller HO train layout with each featuring more than 100 scale miles of track.

You wouldn’t think the town of Pueblo, Colorado, would fit into a 2,500-square-foot building in North Fort Myers. But it does. And so does San Bernardino, Castle Rock, Denver and several other ...

BACK MOUNTAIN, Pa. — There's a lot more that goes into the layouts at the Back Mountain Railroad Club than what initially meets the eye. "Our first layout, which is the historical layout, as we call ...

Jason Lantz, of Williamstown, and son Zackary looked at model train merchandise at last year’s Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s Show and Sale at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. (File ...

This story originally appeared in the December 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. How many of us found something we loved as a young child that we still thoroughly enjoy as an adult? Members of the ...