In their backyard, Al and Bev Mann have 550 feet of model-railroad tracks that run past a pond, a waterfall, a market and a used-car dealership, among many other landmarks. But in 2005, the first year ...

Occasional pieces of furniture serve little purpose other than to fill a space and maybe display a prized ornament or two. Who hasn’t got a relative with one two many small tables or display stands ...

One more model train posting and then I'll quit this theme for a while. This one is another comment added to the previous posts which I am elevating because of general interest in a such a nifty idea.

Markus Maas was just a child when he built his first model train layout, trying to cram his HO-gauge set into a small, already crowded Swiss apartment. But in the years that followed, he abandoned his ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I have this theory that toys we loved as kids have a way of imprinting themselves on some of us, certainly on ...

A model railway builder left customers at a "high risk" of electric shocks by selling unsafe items. Colin Harding, a model railway layout builder, also took £15,000 from customers as part of a ...

HAGERSTOWN — Hagerstown was nicknamed the “Hub City” during the heyday of coal and steam, a history that one can see in small scale at the Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum. The roundhouse, which once ...

An ‘astonishing’ model railway layout built up over 50 years by an avid collector is to be auctioned this month – three years after his death. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...