As a child, Connie Rudder was forbidden to go near her brothers’ model trains. “My older brother had a post-World War II Lionel set, and my younger brother had an HO set from the late ’60s or early ...

HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - In Roanoke, the Virginia Museum of Transportation highlights some heavyweights of railroad history. In the museum’s basement, members of the Roanoke Valley Model Railroad Club ...

Most of us would be pretty happy with ourselves if we made one of those neat “epoxy river” types of art for our home. Not so with prolific maker [Peter Waldraff]. [Peter] is a skilled craftsman with a ...

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 ...

OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio -- Nathan and Elijah, brothers who live in Brunswick, spent more than 90 minutes with their dad, Bryan, at the former railroad depot on Garfield Avenue. Bryan said they often visit ...

Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others can occasionally be ...

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 ...

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