Some people grow flowers in their gardens. Others build entire miniature worlds complete with trains, towns, waterfalls and tiny vehicles. That's what members of the Tulsa Garden Railroad Club have ...

Trains and tracks are found in many childhood toy boxes and are a source of delight for young and old. From Lionel classics to today’s Thomas the Train collections, railroads provide more than ...

Does your garden include engines, rolling stock, turntable pits and switchstands? When you visit a garden center, do you ignore the towering magnolias and mop-head hydrangeas in favor of plants with ...

One miniature log home on Jim Shaver's garden railway in Mound mirrors his own residence. Shaver designed and built both himself, and the mini one still took him plenty of time to construct — about ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Doug Mayes’ love of garden railroads started innocently enough: with a model train that went around his Christmas tree. “After Christmas I didn’t want to put ...

There’s something magical about a train, whether you call it a railway or a railroad, plenty of us have hankered after our own little piece of line on which to shunt wagons or chuff around our domain.

Adrian Backshall transformed his East Sussex garden into a working railway, inspired by his railway engineering career. The ...

Portland urban naturalist Mike Houck tracks great blue herons on the Willamette River; Garden railways combine model railroads with imaginative outdoor landscapes; Small acts of kindness are an ...