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The biggest model railroad club in the Northwest has hand-built everything from Union Station to Multnomah Falls in meticulous detail — with the occasional whimsical flourish (we see you, Bigfoot).
It’s also the roughly 400 bridges made of balsa wood (the longest of which spans 40 feet), more than 1,000 model buildings and the nearly 300,000 pounds of plaster sculpted into deep canyons and ...
The show is part of the Railroad Museum's fundraising effort to apply for a matching grant from the state to build a pavilion structure over the trains on display outside ...
Peter Hambling is building a model-train set in the basement of his Medina home that will use 4,000 feet of track and be one of the largest in the country.
Model railroad at Seashore Trolley Museum poised to open in 2024 Construction has commenced on the building that will house it; then comes set up, and new sections of rails and buildings and ...
The Tech Model Railroad Club awarded its members a key to the clubroom after they logged forty hours of work on the layout. Freshman Midway had been on a Friday. By Monday, Peter Samson had his key.
A sneak peek at the Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum, which developers hope to open in North Adams in 2021.
In order to celebrate National Model Railroad Month (who knew?), local advocates who have created and collected miniature railroad displays are opening their homes to showcase their work. “We ...
The excitement of electric model trains was not only in operating them, but the hours and hours of adding scenery, buildings, vehicles, figures and more to the layouts.
If the narrow-gauge railroad, buildings and pretend people weren't a fraction of real size, they would never fit in this yard in Corbett. Fortunately, Gary Lee is a "rivet counter," a term model ...
Rob Caves and members of the Christmas Tree Lane Model Railroad Society have built a gigantic model train set that is ever expanding in his backyard.
In Union, the Model Railroad Club Inc.’s 2022 Holiday Train Show started on Black Friday and runs weekends through Dec. 11. The club welcomes thousands of guests to its show.