Everyone has their own reason for attending the Amherst Railway Society's annual Railroad Hobby Show - now in its 49th season - which opens its doors for two days beginning Saturday on the grounds of ...

On the top floor of an old red barn in Wilson - the Antique Barn and Hobby Shop - is 467 miles of mainline railroad track. It's an enormous model-train layout, and the trains are running. The ...

A woman with a child dashes to board a passenger train, their coats flying in the breeze. A man sits crossed-legged on a bench, waiting for another train to arrive on the next track. Across the rail ...

Sign up for our LI Press email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! Trainville Hobby Depot has once again compiled a ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — If you stepped into any one of four buildings on the grounds of Eastern States Exposition on Saturday, you found yourself surrounded by Lilliputian cities, each with its own rail ...

The Amherst Railway Society’s 53rd Railroad Hobby Show will fill four buildings and nearly 11 acres of floor space when it arrives at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield Jan. 25 and 26.

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 ...

Train enthusiasts got to show off their model trains this weekend. The Tulsa Garden Railroad Club opened its yards with model train set-ups to the public. Tim Jurek, a participant, says it makes him ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WEST SRPINGFIELD — Like many youngsters back in the 1950s, Ray Buteux got his first train when he was 2. Now in his 70s, Buteux, a ...

"There are no bad train days." That's how collector Craig Chidester feels when he escapes down to his basement and spends time with his electric trains. The 56-year-old Westmont resident is an avid ...