HO is the most popular model train scale in the U.S. and Canada. Out of that meeting, the new members constructed a 5-foot by 10-foot portable layout for the Railroad Community Committee of the ...

Just before 3 p.m. on a Saturday, kids line up outside the model train museum, fussing and hopping and peeking inside. "Thomas is in there!" a 4-year-old boy reports, wide-eyed. "No way!" his twin ...

For those who know their model trains, large scale includes S-scale, O-scale (Lionel size), G-scale (often found in garden railroads), F-scale, 7 ¼ gauge, and 7 ½ gauge models.