Set in Southern California, my HO scale layout includes a Southern Pacific train order office surrounded by a desert scene. Although this arid landscape has sparse vegetation, my scene needed two ...

Q: I’m getting back into model railroading after a 50 year hiatus. I’m having trouble with knuckle couplers that won’t ...

Sponsored by the Amherst Railway Society, the two-day show is the largest of its kind in North America, drawing thousands of model-railroad enthusiasts each day ...

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

An interview with Jim Wiggin of Athearn looks at 80 years of quality products and service to the model railroad industry and hobby.

BOISE, Idaho — Chugging through Idaho’s history, model railroad clubs in the Treasure Valley serve as places of community. The smaller-than-life trains at the Old Boise Model Railroad Club and ...

Google has reacted to confusion that triggered panic across social media groups and forums. The company has denied the claim that Gmail messages were used to train Gemini AI. It says that a separate ...

Multiple generations of adults can vividly recall waking up on Christmas morning to find a model railroad train set circling around the holiday tree. The allure of model trains followed the growth of ...

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Anthropic said Thursday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its AI coding tool to conduct a “large-scale” cyberattack with limited human involvement. The hackers used AI’s agentic capabilities ...

Much like us, our pets' weight can fluctuate throughout the year. In the summer, when they are spending more time outside, they can get a little lean. Whereas when winter hits and they are staying ...

Doug Connelly took a long look a few years ago when he saw a next-door neighbor winding an old garden hose around the backyard. That garden hose marked the path of his neighbor Frank Stellar’s grand ...