But children had special reason to love trains. “Trains brought everything from visiting relatives to all the goods in town,” says Tony Cook, editor of Model Railroad News.

The business park exterior of the Twin City Model Railroad Museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota is fairly unremarkable. But once inside, visitors of all ages are in for a magical, immersive experience—the ...

No credit cards are accepted. The customers come for more than the trains and accessories — new and used. In many cases they come to reunite with a friend wo happens to be a model train expert.

The 28th Model Train Festival at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma runs through Jan. 1, delighting kids and adults.

Every holiday season, Christmas Tree Lane turns into a must stop destination for model train lovers, all thanks to one man who turned his labor of love for the last 15 years into a massive tribute ...

“Setting up a train around the tree is the spark for someone to take those trains off the carpet and start building a model railroad,” Vondrak says. “I got my start in the hobby from a gift ...