Everyone has their own reason for attending the Amherst Railway Society's annual Railroad Hobby Show - now in its 49th season - which opens its doors for two days beginning Saturday on the grounds of ...

A woman with a child dashes to board a passenger train, their coats flying in the breeze. A man sits crossed-legged on a bench, waiting for another train to arrive on the next track. Across the rail ...

On the top floor of an old red barn in Wilson - the Antique Barn and Hobby Shop - is 467 miles of mainline railroad track. It's an enormous model-train layout, and the trains are running. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GOSHEN — Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or ...

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EVERETT — Mike Scheerens has been a model train enthusiast his entire life. When he was about 10 years old, he watched his father, James, build tracks for HO-scale trains, one of the largest models ...

Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” Something in a corner of his basement in his Woodbury home, where he could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WEST SRPINGFIELD — Like many youngsters back in the 1950s, Ray Buteux got his first train when he was 2. Now in his 70s, Buteux, a ...

Train lovers from across the country will be in West Springfield, Mass., this Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 28 and 29, when the Amherst Railway Society’s Railroad Hobby Show rolls into the Eastern States ...

"There are no bad train days." That's how collector Craig Chidester feels when he escapes down to his basement and spends time with his electric trains. The 56-year-old Westmont resident is an avid ...