A few months ago I wrote about a boxcar storage shed in Crookston, Minn., my hometown. During that same visit my friend, then an employee of Minnesota Northern RR (since retired) gave me a tour of the ...

Visitors to the Waynesboro Model Railroad Club’s Holiday Open House can see four scale model railroads – HO, N, two-rail O and three-rail O.

Richard Fifield’s Epsom basement is a bustling depot. “Jug City Railway,” the miniature railroad he began building in 1981, now boasts a Walmart loading dock, an oil refinery, a wood pulp plant and ...

The Model Railroad Club’s Holiday Train Show and Open House in Union County is set to transport visitors back in time to the railroads of the 1950s. Running on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Nov.

The call of the railroad hits some people hard, harkening back to a time when trains were the veins and arteries of the land, with large steam engines pulling railroad cars, moving people and freight ...

Dec. 4—Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree.