A dispute with the East Bay Regional Parks District over a lease agreement is jeopardizing one of the most beloved children's ...

It was always his dream to have a "big boy's train set" – and now James Ardin has built one in his back garden. His miniature, ride-on railway runs on a three-and-a-half acre (14,000sq m) plot at the ...

“A steam train!” a young boy exclaimed, shaking his hands with wild enthusiasm. “Look at that one!” He sat cross-legged on the ground in the backyard of Alan and Nola Olsen, literally shaking with ...

ULYANOVKA, Russia -- For Pavel Chilin, building his own railway was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. It took the 62-year-old electrical engineer more than 10 years to build a 383-yard-long narrow ...

SEATTLE - Thieves stole a mini steam locomotive from a garage in West Seattle - and the entire crime was caught on surveillance video. At least two people broke into the building early Sunday morning.

COOS BAY — The Snug Harbor Railroad, a miniature steam train that ran in Charleston in the 1950s and 1960s, has come home to the Bay Area and will be on display 3-7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, at the Oregon ...

Since first reaching Bloomington in 1853, railroads have loomed large in shaping our history. After all, before the rise of State Farm Insurance Co., the Chicago and Alton Railroad Shops on the city’s ...

Before there was a Disneyland Railroad, Walt Disney had his own miniature live steam railroad at his home in Holmby Hills. Disney, of course, did things on a grand scale. As the studio became ...

The day is a scorcher. It's barely noon, and sweat beads are rolling faster than the miniature trains everyone has come to ride. Vance Nickerson is the engineer of the only running steam engine of the ...

Barbara Aitken shouted to her elementary school students, “Guys, get off the bridge! The train’s coming!” The kids were seated on a wooden trestle bridge, dangling their legs over the sides, as a ...

ULYANOVKA, Russia — For Pavel Chilin, building his own railway was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. It took the 62-year-old electrical engineer more than 10 years to build a 350-meter ...