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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, ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee has been a hub for model railroading since the 1930s. It's been home to a major supplier of model railroad kits and model railroad magazines. To this day, it's still ...

Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree. The allure of model trains followed the growth of ...

Milwaukee and model railroading share deep, historic ties. Model Railroader Magazine, Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., and the National Model Railroad Association all had their humble beginnings in the beer ...

Like a lot of baby-boomer kids, Jack Smith had model trains growing up in the 1950s. But unlike most children of the era, he never drifted away from the hobby. Smith, 71, still has his original Lionel ...

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 ...

The distinctive bell of a railroad crossing and the blow of the whistle punctuate the sound of the steam engine and the rattle of the freight cars following along behind it. They are the sounds that ...

ZANESVILLE — The members of the Zane Trace and National Trail Model Railroad Club have transformed a vast empty room into a empire of tiny trains. They will show it off to the public this weekend.

I've been fascinated by trains for as long as I can remember. Bought my first model railroad car, a little silver ore car in N scale, when I was about five. Got rid of the N scale stuff upon moving to ...

Zane Trace and National Trail Model Railroad Club member Bob Lee eases a train across a bridge on the club's layout in Zanesville. The club will hold an open house this weekend. ZANESVILLE — The ...