From left, team members Gale Treiber, Rich Feller and Paul Cieurzo are in the midst of building a new HO scale model railroad layout for the upcoming show. Wilford Kale/freelance “Our mountain ...

The Smoky Mountain Central Railroad, located in The Depot building on the eastern side of the fairgrounds, features 21 operating HO rail lines. ("HO" refers to the 1/87th scale size of the trains ...

The layout contains more than 6,000 feet of track, at least 20,000 trees, and almost three tons of plaster poured into molds and cast into mountain ranges. "It is a world," Bob continued, "it is ...

Building an elaborate model railroad looks like a legitimately relaxing and rewarding hobby, but if you don’t have an entire basement to dedicate to a sprawling countryside layout, take ...

Luzerne County Back Mountain Railroad Club donates train to VA Medical Center The train layout has been in the works for more than a year by members of the club.

GRINNELL, Iowa (KCRG) - About 20 years ago, a Grinnell couple bought the depot building across from the south side of Central Park. It sits right along railroad tracks, and not far from where the ...

MADISON — Dr. Alan Friedler loves spending countless hours perfecting his model train layout. And this is a passion he never outgrew from when he was a kid.

He started building a 10-by-24 foot layout that runs multiple trains through different landscapes. See the full Small Towns report Thursday on Action 2 News at 6. Have an idea for a Small Towns?

Hughes is in the midst of an estimated eight-year project to build his crowning achievement -- his biggest, most intricate, most ambitiously themed train-and-terrain replication ever.

But he keeps Auburn with him at the farm — in the form of a sprawling model train layout that features the Hunter Dinerant, the "Genesee Beer" sign and other local landmarks.

Hugh Keen of Tulsa is a retired mechanical engineer. Now he's the engineer on his own model railroad layout. He has been building it for about 30 years and still going.

For more than a decade, Rob Caves has invited the public to his Altadena backyard to experience an ever-growing model train universe built by him and his fellow hobbyists in the Christmas Tree ...