Q: What layout is behind Model Railroader Senior Editor Cody Grivno when he hosts “Cody’s Office” on Trains.com? — James Macko A: The layout in the background is the Winston-Salem Southbound Tar ...

In Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion—the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that ...

Model trains have a way of captivating both the young and the young at heart and for the Pahrump Model Railroad Club, the passion runs deep. To share their love of the hobby and hopefully inspire ...

His third wife, a professor of family studies, seems to understand. His hours in the basement don't threaten her. Howard Zane, 65, decided when he sold his industrial design company nearly 20 years ...

Jeff Jamison still has the first model train engine he received when he was 6 or 7. "It was a little Tyco diesel engine," he said, that his father gave him. Like most model-railroading hobbyists, ...

For the last 23 years, Rod Stewart has been working on a massive model railroad. The successful singer has been featured in both Railway Modeller (published in his native UK) and Model Railroader ...

What led you to photograph model trains? Some grow up liking girls and beer—I also liked trains. In terms of photography, that was my father’s hobby—he had lots of nice cameras. Popular Photography ...

Kalmbach Media, a 90-year-old Wisconsin publisher, has sold its Model Railroader, Trains, Astronomy, and other magazines to a Tennessee publisher. The sale to Firecrown Media, of Chattanooga, also ...

WEBVTT AMAJOR MILESTONE.>> STEVE, YOU WANT TO HELP MEHERE GET THIS OPEN?>> EDITOR NEIL BESOUGLOFF ANDTHE STAFF AT KALMBACH PUBLISHINGIN WAUKESHA ARE CELEBRATING AMAJOR MILESTONE.>> THIS IS THE KIND OF ...

When Robin Claxton was seven years old, his father built him and his little brother a model train layout with a 4’ by 8’ sheet of plywood and some old tracks and engines at the family’s home in Sharon ...

Most of us would be pretty happy with ourselves if we made one of those neat “epoxy river” types of art for our home. Not so with prolific maker [Peter Waldraff]. [Peter] is a skilled craftsman with a ...