For more than a decade, Rob Caves has invited the public to his Altadena backyard to experience an ever-growing model train universe built by him and his fellow hobbyists in the Christmas Tree ...

An Oxford couple is among those opening their backyard this weekend to showcase elaborate model railroad layouts.

Jack Mitchell, 4, with his mom, Emma Mitchell look over a railing to see a model train set layout during an annual Holiday Train Show and open house by Model Railroad Club Inc. in Union on ...

Dale Desser, of Erie, doesn't want visitors to simply watch his spectacular model railroad. He invites people to operate it.

All scales of train layouts will be on display, including tiny Z scale train layouts and large, garden-scale train layouts people set up in their backyards.

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.

Dr. Alan Friedler’s train set features a coal mining city, circa 1945-50, that includes mountains, a river and waterfall that run through the landscape.

ALBANY, N.Y. — There's something about a model train set that always gets you in the holiday spirit. Many of you have one running beneath your Christmas tree each year. Whether you're a ...

Old model parts for Lionel trains made in the 1940s and ’50s mixed with billboards used to decorate the elaborate layouts set up by local model train clubs.

Train enthusiasts got to show off their model trains this weekend. The Tulsa Garden Railroad Club opened its yards with model train set-ups to the public.

GIBSONIA, Pa. — Administrators for the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum get all excited during the Christmas season because it's the only time of the year it is open to the public ...