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 ...

Gardening and building model railroads have been popular hobbies for ages. But a recent trend combines these two hobbies: garden railroading. Garden railroading can be as simple as a railroad track ...

: The 2026 Train Show is back at The Domes and Hayley Spitler is there with a look at this year’s exhibit that features garden-scale model trains navigating a miniature world tour of the Seven Modern ...

And the options are many. On the train side, size of the layout, gauge and scale of the equipment, brass tracks versus stainless steel, and layout details (buildings? tiny people?) all need to be ...

Ray Shelton is a retired Nassau County Police officer, but he has been working on the railroad for 40 years. Shelton’s Hicksville backyard is landscaped with bushes like a large, blooming prickly pear ...

Train fans can crisscross the greater Portland area to see engines chugging through tunnels, across bridges and on trestles elevated over rivers with flowing water at 13 different railroad layouts ...