Most modelers can pinpoint the photos, people, events, books, or stories that inspired them to build their model railroads.

There’s just something about miniature worlds — they’re just so relaxing to look at and ponder. Think you don’t have ample room for a model train layout at your place? You may not be thinking small ...

Most men of a certain age can remember playing with model train sets, perhaps received from under the Christmas tree or as a treasured birthday present. As the years went on, most of those trains were ...

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 — ...