Prud’homme demonstrated by holding up model train tracks that looked exactly like a diamond, then some shaped like frogs’ feet. Many remember the shop at 301 Bowman Ave. as the long-time ...

Then he built three sets of model railroad tracks out of foam and fitted them with three different types of springs: fresh new springs, midlife springs, and old, worn-out springs.

This 6.5 x 24 ft layout built by Greater Toronto Toy Trains includes seven tracks and over a dozen building sets.

Gary Allen Montelongo, age 14, just won $10,000 for coding, building mini railroad tracks, and running a model train on them to investigate an infrastructure weakness that can cause trains to ...