When Clair and Joan Shearer opened their Lancaster home for a garden tour several months ago, only a couple of their 300 visitors had ever seen a garden railroad. The century-old European hobby, where ...

In their backyard, Al and Bev Mann have 550 feet of model-railroad tracks that run past a pond, a waterfall, a market and a used-car dealership, among many other landmarks. But in 2005, the first year ...

ONE of the UK’s most successful Garden Railway Festivals will be making a welcome return journey to Llangollen Pavilion on Saturday, June 7. The Llangollen Garden Railway Festival is one of the UK’s ...

The UK’s biggest model railway exhibition, the National Festival of Railway Modelling, will return to the NEC Birmingham on November 22 and 23. Widely recognised as the UK’s leading railway modelling ...

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Experience the agony and ecstasy of model making with Mark Found as he designs and builds an ambitious layout in his own back garden. To obtain the knowledge and expertise needed, he visits some of ...

The 40th National Garden Railway Convention will a spectacular model train show, by featuring operating model train layouts, displays, merchandise, and free kids make and take workshops. The ...

Train fans and garden appreciators can crisscross the greater Portland area to see compact engines chugging through tunnels, across bridges and on trestles at 14 different model railroad layouts ...

Ray Shelton is a retired Nassau County Police officer, but he has been working on the railroad for 40 years. Shelton’s Hicksville backyard is landscaped with bushes like a large, blooming prickly pear ...