On the top floor of an old red barn in Wilson - the Antique Barn and Hobby Shop - is 467 miles of mainline railroad track. It's an enormous model-train layout, and the trains are running. The ...
If you walk into James A. Deignan's cellar and expect to see a Lionel train tooting around a tiny track, you may be in for a surprise. What is there is a massive multitrack system with many trains, ...
“This is basically a layout under construction,” he said. There’s no hurry. Besides, he said, no model railroader really wants a layout to be done. The joy for him is in building it. As Yelen speaks, ...
HAVERFORD, Pa. (WPVI) -- A Delaware County man has taken his model train hobby to a whole new level. Bruce Feldman has been collecting and perfecting his trains for more than 30 years. His home ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The trains were running today in Dave Feller’s basement. Created in 2009, this sprawling miniature world has brought hundreds of hours of joy to two friends and anyone who ...
The York Train Fair returns this October, and organizers say it remains one of the largest toy train events in the United States. But as the hobby continues to grow older, there’s one concern keeping ...
Matthew Glazer, president of the RIT Model Railroad Club, is helping vendors set up their railroad layouts for Rochester’s largest toy train exhibit, the RIT Tiger Tracks Train Show and Sale. For the ...
Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...
WEBVTT PITTSBURGHERS. REPORTER: A TRAIN SET UNDER THE TREE AT CHRISTMAS. IT'S A TRADITION MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. >> OH YEAH. WE HAD A TRAIN SET GROWING UP. STILL HAVE IT IN FACT MY BASEMENT.
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 ...