Bill Young, a St. Helena resident, is a large man; a man of ideas and complexity. Building model railroads and railroad bridges has been his hobby. Three years ago he wanted to challenge his ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — With more than a mile of track, there's nothing miniature about the model railroad that occupies the basement of Bob Bandy's Colorado Springs home; under construction since 2000 ...

Seattle is already home to one of the world’s largest floating bridges. Now Sound Transit is taking on another challenge: building steel tracks for trains on a bridge that floats and moves to the ...

When Michelle Christensen’s kids were growing up, nearly all their early birthdays were spent riding on the scale model trains at the Mackerel Flats and Goat Hill Junction Railroad in Costa Mesa’s ...

For people who build their own model trains there are a range of manufacturers from whom a power bogie containing the motor and drive can be sourced. But as [Le petit train du Berry] shows us in a ...

EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest models ...