RPI’s famed model train layout will be reimagined

The Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's famed 4,000-square-foot model train layout is breaking up again, this time for good.
Seattle Times

Not your ordinary model-train set

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 ...
Staten Island Advance

Meticulously detailed train layout in basement of Meiers Corners house delivers the goods at Yule

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Christmas, including Santa Claus and his flying reindeer, runs right on schedule in the Meiers Corners household where James Westgate spends two weeks assembling the elaborate ...
The Post-Crescent

I built 1950s Appleton as model railroad in my basement

APPLETON - If you’ve been to Pierce Park or Jefferson School, you’ve glimpsed my model railroad. If you’ve been to the History Museum at the Castle, you’ve walked where my little people walk. If ...
Staten Island Advance

Retired Transit Authority worker Al Palma, long-time model train enthusiast, oversees 25 sets in his basement

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - ELTINGVILLE - Though Al Palma retired from the city Transit Authority more than 10 years ago, he continues to have trains on the brain. The Eltingville resident and Brooklyn ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

For Londonderry family, basement contains a world of model trains

LONDONDERRY — Trains seem to run in Dave Maher’s family. He met his wife, Deborah, when he gave up his seat to an older woman on the MBTA Green Line — and asked her out when they happened to meet ...
MLive

Hundreds visit elaborate basement model train display, raise more than $1,000

NAPOLEON TWP., MI - It was another successful year for John and Karol Morris' model train display open house. Every year since 2001, the Morrises have welcomed the public into their Napoleon Township ...
Spectrum News NY1

Bay Ridge Basement Model Railroad Seeks New Home

It might appear to just be the boiler room insie 28 Marine Avenue in Bay Ridge, but behind a door lies a massive model railroad layout that takes up the whole room. It's the headquarters of the Bay ...
GIGAZINE

Train-loving engineer discovers huge model train diorama in basement of new home

Daniel Shu, an engineer who bought a house in the suburbs of Melbourne, went down to the basement to renovate it and discovered a huge model railway diorama that filled the entire room, Australian ...
MLive

Train town hums in Galesburg basement splendor

GALESBURG -- Follow Steve Phillips, 70, into his basement and at first you'll see what you expect, a dark and dingy space. But then he opens a set of double doors, flips on the lights, and you're ...
WTAE-TV

Model trains at Christmas providing magical moments for 130 years

TRADITION. REPOER:RT HISTORIANS SAY MODEL TRAINS GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1891 THEY’RE STILL POPULAR 130 YEARS LATER. THIS ONE IS THE MINIATURE RAILROAD & VILLAGE AT THE CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER AND IT ...