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The Rise of HO Scale Model Trains

HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity ...
LAKE WALES -- Promontory, Utah had its few minutes of fame when the Golden Spike connected the first transcontinental railroad. Lake Wales also had a shining moment in railroad history on Wednesday.
You wouldn’t think the town of Pueblo, Colorado, would fit into a 2,500-square-foot building in North Fort Myers. But it does. And so does San Bernardino, Castle Rock, Denver and several other ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — All aboard for the Bluegrass Model Railroad Club's third year of educating and selling model trains and their set-ups at the Oleika Shriners Temple in Lexington. The club has ...
Concealed in the basement of a downtown Wauconda coffee shop is something that would amaze any child, or adult for that matter — a complete landscaped small-gauge train layout, with familiar sites and ...
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 ...
This story originally appeared in the December 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. How many of us found something we loved as a young child that we still thoroughly enjoy as an adult? Members of the ...
Robert Lafferty sat back as he took control of his steam locomotive in the back of the main display hall at the Augusta ...
ADAIR VILLAGE — Train enthusiasts and families have visited the Corvallis Society of Model Engineers headquarters here for the past four decades. They’ve marveled at the multiroom track layout, ...
The Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club held its Louie Creel Memorial Open House in February 2024 at the club house in the basement of NOE Office Supply in Parkersburg. (File Photo) PARKERSBURG — The ...
The Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s annual Christmas Open House will be held from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Dec. 3 in the rear basement of NOE Office Equipment, 610 Green St. The family-oriented event is ...