Size: 13′-0″ x 34′-9″ Prototype: Boston & Maine Locale: Five villages of Wakefield, N.H. Era: 1909 Style: around-the-walls ...

At the Historic Northport Train Depot, the high-pitched whistle of a train blares as the wheels creak and engine chugs ...

These model train creators and fans are members of the Long Island Garden Railway Society, formed in the late 1980s.

The Hocking Valley Scenic Railway in Nelsonville, Ohio offers exactly that kind of old-world magic – a delightful throwback experience where the destination takes a backseat to the journey itself.

On my childhood layout, the trains just went round and round an oval, but the landscape they went through endured the Second ...