"There are no bad train days." That's how collector Craig Chidester feels when he escapes down to his basement and spends time with his electric trains. The 56-year-old Westmont resident is an avid ...

When I was a boy my oldest brother had a model train set. It was mounted on a huge board, which I now realize was probably only eight feet by four feet, but when you are under age 10 many things look ...

Members of the Central Missouri Chapter of the Train Collectors Association displayed their personal collections of model and toy locomotives during a meetup Saturday at the Rock Quarry House in ...

Jim Medlin has enjoyed model trains since he was a boy. Now, at age 70, he enjoys few things more than sharing his hobby with a new generation as a member of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Train ...

“The smoke from steam engines have a smell — it's like a cedar smell — and it almost feels like Christmas,” he said, recalling when he was a 4-year-old child living in New York City and his ...

COLUMBIA — Louis Eggerding revived his interest in model railroading about 20 years ago when he began seeing trains he had as a boy in antique stores. "The first ones that I bought didn't run, but I ...

Westchase resident Ed Barragan likes hitting the stores to look at train sets and the many accessories that go with, but it makes him laugh when someone at the store asks him how many children he has ...

And now RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively that he named a train collector in his will. Nick Barone, who owns Allied Model Trains, was named in two wills prepared by the Diff’rent Strokes star.

DANBURY - It was an agonizing decision for James Hall when he agreed to sell the massive collection of American-made toy trains he had been gathering since he was a child. That agony only got worse ...

Tom Ott, a member of the Indiana Area Train Collectors, put the finishing touches on an exhibit as part of the 2019 Holiday Wheels and Thrills model train display on Wednesday at the Indiana Mall.