In 2020, MTH Electric Trains President Mike Wolf announced his May 2021 retirement and the subsequent closure of the company ...

Tour the Pennsylvania & Western RR, Bob Bartizek’s impressive O scale (1:48, 3-rail) model railroad representing a fictional ...

An interview with Jay Escamilla of Third & Townsend and Sunset Models looks at what’s in store in under this new partnership.

Model train displays are back on track in Mentor. The city, which lost a major toy train attraction in 2011, now is home to CW Trains LLC. CW Trains grew out of a joint venture by brothers-in-law ...

Richard Dobler is a railroad baron in the manner of Henry Flagler, though on a less ostentatious scale. Adjacent to his home between Lake Wales and Dundee lies an 18-acre model train domain that he — ...

Built by the American Locomotive Co. in March 1913, No. 1003 and its Class L-1 2-8-2 sisters served the Minneapolis, St. Paul ...

In downtown York’s heyday, the building at 17 W. Market St. was occupied by Fluhrer’s Jewelry Store with a wonderful tile mosaic floor and sparkling gems on display. For the past 20 years, it has been ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

FORTVILLEWhen John Kitterman was looking for a workshop where he could house a business building model train layouts, the concrete building available for rent wasn\'t what he wanted.Nestled on a quiet ...

In an unassuming rumpus room, model rail enthusiast Peter Michalak has been working for more than a decade on a mammoth project that has cost him tens of thousands of dollars and caused him to suffer ...

CINCINNATI -- All Aboard! Holidays and model trains seem to go hand-in-hand, thanks to nostalgic memories of childhood and new generations of kids to introduce to the magic of the rails. “Holiday ...