Do you remember having model trains as a kid? Maybe working on them with your dad or granddad? Or, how about a train circling the Christmas tree? If you answered yes to any of these then you know how ...

The pandemic has helped Märklin, a 162-year-old company that makes model trains, discover a new audience. Märklin, the 162-year-old German maker of model trains, produces nearly all of its components ...

Retired professional golfer Ed Dougherty built a six-car garage for his home in Pennsylvania, but it contains no automobiles. None that are big enough to transport people, that is. Mr. Dougherty, 72, ...

Portland has long been famous for converting warehouses into residential properties, but a corner building in the city’s Southeast Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood is more in the loft style tradition of ...

A Financial Analyst and late Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Duke shared a passion for creating joy with vintage trains While they both worked at Duke, Travis Washburn and Dr. Thomas Kinney ...

Howard Zane has been working on the railroad for thirty years--building a massive model train set complete with 150 locomotives, thousands of feet of track and more than 6,000 figures. He's expanded ...

CANFIELD, Ohio -- Lionel is one of the best-known model train makers in the world. It has fans (and customers) just about everywhere, and its products can sell for hundreds of dollars. In the last 113 ...

Downtown San Jose has been evolving into an ever-more vibrant, busy area with corporate offices, shops, museums, entertainment venues, restaurants and housing -- mostly apartments and condos. As ...