Model Railroading News

There will be fun for the whole family from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, at the 24th annual Civilian Conservation Corps Festival at Highlands Hammock State Park.

Like trains? Love Trainfest . This is the 38th anniversary of the show, which claims to be "America's largest operating model railroad show." There are expected to be more than 50 detailed model train layouts in all different scales filling the Wisconsin Exposition Center, 8200 W. Greenfield Ave., West Allis, Saturday and next Sunday from 9:30 a.m.

The Model Railroad System is a software package that can help you run your railroad.

The board of directors of the West Virginia Railroad Museum is offering the public an opportunity to own a railroad.

While most kids find an iPod or Nintendo DS under the Christmas tree these days, every year Dave Skinner tries to bring children back to his childhood fascination of toy trains.

Warren Buffett has just become the king of train collectors. The world's second-richest man recently bought BNSF Railway Co., the nation's second-largest railroad, to go along with a large model set in his Omaha home.

The Friends of the Manassas Senior Center invite the community to enjoy an old-fashioned bazaar and rummage sale Nov.

Chuck Lind has been a model-train enthusiast since he was a child. Over the years, Lind has built an extensive and lifelike model railroad at his home, which will be featured among open houses this weekend.

The Texas Western Model Railroad Club is again opening its doors to railroad enthusiasts every Saturday this month, the only time of the year that nonmembers can check out the 4,400-square-foot layout of old Americana.The dues-paying club has worked for 12-plus years to build an exact model of Western railroading in the 1940s and '50s, from the ...

Geoff Westbrook and his fiancee, Mary Ann Scott, marvel at their new Harley-Davidson model train, which will be on display at this Saturday's train and craft show to benefit the school's marching band.

Since 1946, more than 9 million people have visited Duke Energy's lobby at Fourth and Main streets to see one of the world's largest model train displays.

The Flint River Model Railroad Club of Albany Georgia will host an openhouse on November 14, 2009.

The Bellevue Area Chamber of Commerce and Bellevue Downtown Committee again will sponsor a holiday market this year in the previous Ben Franklin's Department Store, 127 E. Main St.

Some of my fondest memories of Christmas involve playing with my our family's model trains.

A Marvel Comics version of "Thor" is headed to our silver screens, but... Brian Blessed won't be Odin as some had hoped.

For exciting family fun, check out Trainfest. This year, Trainfest, America's largest operating model railroad show, will roll into the Exposition Center at Wisconsin State Fair Park on Saturday, Nov.

Hapgood Theatre Company closes its season opener, "The Odd Couple," this weekend at the Nick Rodriguez Communtiy Center theater, 213 F St.

Gerald Hepp's mom got him a toy train set for Christmas in 1945. "When I was a little guy," the 69-year-old Northland resident said last week.

How many times have you heard an adult -- maybe even a senior citizen -- say "I'm just a big kid at heart?" Well, during a mid-October trip to Wheeling, W.Va., I not only got the "Wheeling feeling," but took a nostalgic journey back to the days of my childhood.

In a universe a lot like this one, the subway clatters to a stop, the doors slide open and a disembodied voice intones, a oeStand clear of the closing doors.a Except the universe is one-eighty-seventh the size of ours, and no sprinting figure attempts to defy the resolve of rapidly narrowing doors.