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 ...

When Sam Posey’s wife, Ellen, announced she was pregnant with their first child, he knew then and there he would be building a toy train layout. It was a birthright. He just couldn’t guess it would ...

Since we broke the sad news yesterday that the two model-train layouts that have been in the basement of Union Station for decades — eight decades, in one case — will not be there when Union Station ...

MONUMENT, Colo. (AP) - To say Bob Bandy has a model train hobby is like saying Peyton Manning sometimes tosses a football around in the yard. In the basement of his Gleneagle home, Bandy and a devoted ...

The beloved model-train layouts in the basement of Union Station have reached the end of the line. Back when two developers were competing for the contract to redevelop the facility, both promised ...

HAMBURG, NY (WKBW-TV) — Nobody has a train set like Judd Wright of Hamburg. His train layout fills his basement-completely. It's powered by twenty transformers. Judd says "When you get old you need ...

FULL TIME JOB TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY. THIS IS HIS NON PAYING ONE, THE ONE HE’S WORKED AT FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS. IT’S A HOBBY THAT HELPS ME KEEP WHAT LITTLE SANITY I HAVE. IT’S A GREAT ESCAPE FROM THE ...

For many baby boomers, and some younger folks as well, the December holidays are synonymous with model trains. Many in the postwar generation grew up with Lionel or American Flyer rolling stock ...

Tomorrow morning when children wake up early and rush to the Christmas tree, some will discover the magic that many know all year long: the magic of model trains. Years ago, in a time before Nintendo ...

It's forever Christmas Eve in Cannonsburg and Cannonsville: It says so on the only way into these special places where carols are playing, Santa's flying overhead and holiday lights are all aglow. But ...