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For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the train ...

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PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — In Pinellas Park, there's an age-old business that not only survived the pandemic but grew stronger because of it. Like the real-life steel titans, their models are made to ...

The livingroom coffee table has long been a favorite realm of the model railroad. But what to do when you actually want to have coffee? [Peter Waldraff] has come up with a most eloquent answer to the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Model Railroad Show rolled into Richmond the weekend after Thanksgiving with train displays and train-themed programming at the Science Museum of Virginia. The Model ...

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STRASBURG, Pa. — Hobbies come in all shapes and sizes. But for the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society, their massive mobile model is a passion. “It’s fun because we try to portray the old ...

New York City’s newest train model was unveiled in Brooklyn Thursday — and the faster cars will provide a “dramatic upgrade” to subway services across the city, the MTA vowed. The R211s, built in ...