Today, HO systems have gone digital. He used to find model train supplies at local hobby shops, but rising costs have caused some stores to quit stocking them. Strong has turned to online companies ...

HO scale model trains are a significant part of model railroading history, and we can partially credit the overall popularity of model trains with the rise of a convenient, tabletop scale like HO.

Craig Martyn’s father, Paul, can’t remember a time when his son was not interested in trains. Whether it was wooden Brio trains or highly detailed HO scale models, trains have been a large part of ...

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 ...

A miniature HO scale train display ran under a canopy over the weekend next to the Mineral Ridge Historical Society that ...

Rick Bartko remembers waking up to the sound of the Freedom Train in the late 1940s, blaring its loud horn as it roared by his childhood home. "It woke me out of a deep sleep," he said. "I said 'Woah!

But it's not from the tracks that run through this Dakota County community -- the echo of some freight, grain or coal train. It's in the lower level of his home. The weekend of March 2-3, Koskovich ...

WYOMING, Mich. — Visiting Hobby World in Wyoming you could easily miss it, but just past the aisles, down a flight of stairs and through a doorway lies a train lovers paradise. Western Michigan ...

TWIN FALLS • Mule deer herds grazing in sloping valleys, and wide swaths of farmland laid like patchwork from California to Colorado: These are scenes Pam Makos easily recalls from her numerous train ...