It has always been, and will always be, July 10, 1975 in Ralph S. DeBlasi’s basement. The basement, which DeBlasi of Camden County refers to as his “time machine,” is home to his prototype model ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — If you stepped into any one of four buildings on the grounds of Eastern States Exposition on Saturday, you found yourself surrounded by Lilliputian cities, each with its own rail ...

No matter how old some people get, trains have the ability to awaken in them a childlike delight. At least, that's the experience of the Arizona Big Train Operators, a group of model railroad ...

An old Western town has taken over Gary and Jonette Lee's backyard. Tiny Baker City, with its barbershop, cabins and stores, is part of a development crisscrossed by train tracks. Chugging through ...

Did you know Milwaukee is the birthplace of model railroading and continues to dominate in the hobby today? It's true, thanks to W. Walthers, Inc., a family-owned local business that was started in ...

Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Closed Tuesdays. To describe Northlandz as a model railroad would be a bit like calling ...

It's a hobby based on modeling one of America's first big businesses -- the railroad. It's also a hobby that is itself a big business. Scale-model railroading revenues amount to about $500 million a ...