2004-08-08 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento-- "Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine," wrote Paul Theroux, "I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it." I ...

Ed Gibson, son of the late train hobbyist and toy store owner Thomas E. Gibson, organizes trains in a warehouse where his father stored his collectibles Tuesday. The family of Thomas Gibson, who died ...

SALISBURY, Md. --- Michael Murray has lived in Salisbury all his life and has been building this tiny neighborhood for most of that time. He and his dog Mr. Beasley has a huge train display centered ...

It’s all about scale at the California State Railroad Museum.“I think we have a lot of think going for us. It's big trains — something about the scale of coming into a 225,000 square-foot facility and ...

Maybe it was taking the Broadway IRT subway line to East Flatbush that inspired Brooklyn-born Jerry Greene to spend five decades amassing the world’s greatest — and best-kept secret — collection of ...

When we were little we totally wanted to have a train set that went around our house like Ricky Shroder had on Silver Spoons. We mention this because it was all we could think about when we saw that ...

VERSAILLES, Ky. (LEX 18) — The entrance to the museum portion of Nostalgia Station Toy & Train Museum fills with noise as Winfrey Adkins puts the train display into motion. The museum and store is ...