Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

A boy visits a model train exhibition in Shanghai, east China, Dec. 27, 2025. The theme exhibition and related special activities were held at Shanghai Mass Art Center on Saturday. More than 50 model ...

DISPLAY. THEY TOOK JEAN MACKIN BEHIND THE SCENES TO SEE HOW THE MAGIC COMES TO LIFE. YOU CAN HEAR IT COMING ROUND THE BEND. THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON CHUGGING DOWN THE TRACKS. ARRIVING JUST IN TIME FOR ...

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Bysiewicz and Elicker test the seats in the model train car. (This is not a full-length car. A photo in the back gives the illusion of one.) Credit: Dereen Shirnekhi photos A life-sized model of a ...

Elaborate tracks, vintage locomotives and quaint villages — train displays can evoke feelings of wonder in young and old alike. When it comes to holiday train displays, interest crosses generational ...

It looked like it could have been a page out the history book for the old Union Station in 1980. Inside onlookers young and old watched and waited for the train to come around the bend, but the ...

ST. JAMES — Laurence Lau sounds an electronic whistle as children study a fictionalized version of an urban train interchange. The gesture causes him to smile. He sports a traditional railroad ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new artificial intelligence model that can train itself without relying on large volumes of human-labelled data. This ...

The raging trade war that has rocked the country may derail a beloved business in Northeastern Pennsylvania. With costs from their suppliers set to spike, several model train and hobby shop owners in ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) -The Brazos Valley Modular Railroad Association is displaying its model trains once again. The display is in the pavilion of the George Bush Library until this Sunday, January 5, ...

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