STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Christmas, including Santa Claus and his flying reindeer, runs right on schedule in the Meiers Corners household where James Westgate spends two weeks assembling the elaborate ...

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - To say Bob Bandy has a model train hobby is like saying Peyton Manning sometimes tosses a football around in the yard. In the basement of his Gleneagle home, Bandy and a devoted ...

MEDINA, Washington — EDITOR'S NOTE: A version of this story first aired in January 2019. The owners are now looking for a new home for the model train layout -- ideally an organization that could take ...

GALESBURG -- Follow Steve Phillips, 70, into his basement and at first you'll see what you expect, a dark and dingy space. But then he opens a set of double doors, flips on the lights, and you're ...

HAMBURG, NY (WKBW-TV) — Nobody has a train set like Judd Wright of Hamburg. His train layout fills his basement-completely. It's powered by twenty transformers. Judd says "When you get old you need ...

Since we broke the sad news yesterday that the two model-train layouts that have been in the basement of Union Station for decades — eight decades, in one case — will not be there when Union Station ...

There is something terribly old-fashioned about a model-train show. Nostalgia so thick you can almost smell it. Grown men still playing with the toys of their youth. Old guys pining for the lost days ...

For many baby boomers, and some younger folks as well, the December holidays are synonymous with model trains. Many in the postwar generation grew up with Lionel or American Flyer rolling stock ...