STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Christmas, including Santa Claus and his flying reindeer, runs right on schedule in the Meiers Corners household where James Westgate spends two weeks assembling the elaborate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's model train layout of the fictional New England, Berkshire & Western Railroad has been ...

The beloved model-train layouts in the basement of Union Station have reached the end of the line. Back when two developers were competing for the contract to redevelop the facility, both promised ...

MEDINA, Washington — EDITOR'S NOTE: A version of this story first aired in January 2019. The owners are now looking for a new home for the model train layout -- ideally an organization that could take ...

Peter Dolimpio is the owner and creator of a massive double HO Scale Model Railroad layout in the basement of his home in Leominster, Massachusetts. Both this layout and others can occasionally be ...

Since we broke the sad news yesterday that the two model-train layouts that have been in the basement of Union Station for decades — eight decades, in one case — will not be there when Union Station ...

When Sam Posey’s wife, Ellen, announced she was pregnant with their first child, he knew then and there he would be building a toy train layout. It was a birthright. He just couldn’t guess it would ...

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 ...

For many baby boomers, and some younger folks as well, the December holidays are synonymous with model trains. Many in the postwar generation grew up with Lionel or American Flyer rolling stock ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Renovators of Union Station have told the operators of two model train layouts to leave their basement home. Whether the displays will ever return is unclear ...

The massive model railroad layout members of the Springfield Model Railroad Club created in their meeting space isn’t a toy. Named “Springfield Terminal Railway Association,” the club’s model railroad ...

FULL TIME JOB TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY. THIS IS HIS NON PAYING ONE, THE ONE HE’S WORKED AT FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS. IT’S A HOBBY THAT HELPS ME KEEP WHAT LITTLE SANITY I HAVE. IT’S A GREAT ESCAPE FROM THE ...