Youngstown Model Railroad Association officer Bruce Silvernail handles the switching operations at one of the large yards on the HO layout. The YMRA HO layout will appear in the national magazine, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo: Mitchell Horner) The model railroad industry, along with other hobby sectors, faces an existential crisis as Trump ...

For most of us the closest we ever got to the world of steam-powered anything were the tourist destinations like the Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania or the Wilmington and Western Railroad here in ...

If you've followed Model Railroader's Facebook page, you'll probably know that periodically over the past several years, I've made posts called "Lunchtime Reading," which are simply my musings on ...

G-scale layouts include larger trains and scenery that are usually run outside because of their size and durability; they are called garden layouts. There is a smaller room with a smaller N-gauge ...

Zane Trace and National Trail Model Railroad Club member Bob Lee eases a train across a bridge on the club's layout in Zanesville. The club will hold an open house this weekend. ZANESVILLE — The ...

MONACA — Walt Steiner positions himself near the entrance to Beaver County Model Railroad and Historical Society in Monaca, awaiting visitors – especially children – who come to view the club’s train ...

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 ...