Early in his boyhood, Red Lion’s Tristan Mundis faced a choice: games or rails. Video games, that is, versus model railroads. He chose the latter and gained a close partner in that hobby: his ...

Platform takes shape About this time last year, Tristan and Marty started building the platform that would support the model tracks, buildings and miniature characters that would tell the story of ...

PITTSBURGH -- For as long as I can remember, my father had a model train set on a platform in our home. From the middle of our living room floor in our old house on Colby Street to the game room ...

In the end, according to Ed Van Leer, a model railroader then living in Rochester who participated in the construction of Model Railroad Heaven, Lionel donated about $5,000 worth of equipment.

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.

Train lovers of all ages can enjoy the Great Northeast Model Train Show at the Holiday Inn Scranton East, 200 Tigue St., Dunmore, on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. hosted by Bernie Macavage, owner of… ...