Here are some numbers that help explain why jaws drop at the first sight of the model-train set that tech entrepreneur Peter Hambling is having built in the basement of his Medina family home: • The ...

Idea person: Glen Rosenbaum, a partner at the law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP. Big idea: Showcase history through model train room. Where it came from: In the early '50s, when Rosenbaum was three or four ...

WYOMING -- Jerry Frye never had model trains as a child. Now he has thousands. "I've always been interested in trains, but my parents never bought me one," said Frye, who owns Hobby Recycling at 2313 ...

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 Lane ...

When I was a boy my oldest brother had a model train set. It was mounted on a huge board, which I now realize was probably only eight feet by four feet, but when you are under age 10 many things look ...

REPORTER SHELDON INGRAM SHOW US HOW THAT TRADITION CONTINUES TO GROW. ALL ABOARD. >> FRANK WICHMANN’S LOVE FOR MODEL TRAINS STARTED WHEN HE RECEIVED HIS FIRST TRAIN SET FOR CHRISTMAS. HE WAS ...

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 ...

As my colleagues Joann Muller, Zack O’Malley Greenburg and Christopher Helman reported earlier this year, the United States is heading towards its second railroad boom here at the beginning of the ...